One-on-One Activities with Your Young Child
One-on-one activities are back-and-forth social interactions that you can engage in with your child. These activities can help foster a sense of safety, trust, and freedom in your child and encourage them to explore the world. Having positive interactions with your child allows them to build a secure bond with you and lays the foundation …
Parental Involvement in Youth Sports and Activities
Engaging in sports and extracurricular activities offers opportunities for your child(ren) to have fun, learn healthy habits, build developmental skills, and develop social ties with adults and peers in your community. From an early age, you may want your child(ren) to participate in various leagues, teams, and/or clubs as you seek to determine their interests. …
Unplug and Unwind: Strategies for Sleep Success
In today’s techy world, one can easily become absorbed with using screens. While technology offers numerous benefits to users, like readily available educational resources, communication tools, and entertainment options, it also has shortcomings, such as disrupting sleep behaviors for children and adults. Using screens constantly, especially before bedtime, can impact children’s and adults’ sleep patterns …
Positive Parenting in Everyday Moments
Engaging in positive parenting can help you form strong bonds with your child. By creating a secure and loving connection with your child, you show them that they can also form safe and caring attachments. When parents incorporate positive-parenting strategies throughout their child’s development, children learn that meaningful relationships are built on mutual trust and …
The Gratitude Prescription: A Medicine for the Mind
Have you ever considered the meaning and wisdom behind the phrase “count your blessings”? In fact, gratitude intersects with religion, science, and culture and weaves its way through the tapestry of human history. How? From a religious perspective, gratitude could be appreciating the kindness or grace in one’s life. Scientifically speaking, gratitude could be associated …
Choosing the Best Sports For Your Child
Children of all ages can benefit from participating in sports and engaging in physical activity. As a parent, you may want to consider your child’s age, personality, interests, and abilities when signing them up to participate in sports and activities. It may be useful to implement a phased approach with your child for sports participation—start …
Rise and Dine
March is National Nutrition Month! This may be a good time for you to remind your family that starting their day with a nutritious breakfast can be important. In the hustle and bustle of modern life, adults often skip breakfast to gain extra time, use the time differently, or even consume fewer calories. Similarly, children …
Tips for Teaching Children to Brush Their Teeth on Their Own
As children reach toddlerhood (i.e., age 1 to 3 years), they begin to increasingly show signs of independence. Their strong desire to complete tasks independently is often displayed in activities of daily living like getting dressed and brushing their teeth. Because young children do not always have the concentration or control to brush their teeth …
