How do students feel about school? This essential question helps us understand students’ attitudes toward learning. If they see it in a positive light, they’ll be self-motivated to work hard. It will also be easier to teach them. In contrast,…
When we teach children perseverance, we also teach them the importance of continuous effort. They learn to step up and not settle with what’s easy. Children can acquire this skill by example and also through games such as the famous…
Developing a resilient mind in a child is invaluable. You know that your little ones are capable of extraordinary things. However, the most important thing is for them to be happy. For this to happen, nothing is better than teaching them…
The trophy child is a porcelain doll, smiling at the camera. They are also the favorite among all the siblings. They’re an extension of that parent who wants their perfect child to satisfy their emotional needs, fantasies, or unfulfilled desires. Although…
Life completely changes for hospitalized children, often quite suddenly. They lose their routine: going to school, playing with their friends, participating in extracurricular activities, etc. It’s almost like they stop being children.
Although it’s not often talked about, some children have parents with paranoid personality disorder. These children suffer the effects of unstable family relationships, scarring emotional instability, and a dysfunctional environment. Later in life, they have an elevated risk of mental illness. Clearly, these children…
Your emotional education plays a huge role in the person you become in life. Properly managing your emotions makes you more intelligent. But first, someone has to teach you how. One of the best new tools out there for that is the…
Balloon breathing is a great way to help children regulate their emotions. It can help them calm down and, at the same time, develop more awareness of their body. It’s a simple tool they can start to use once they turn…
Narcissism, understood as the love towards oneself and constantly searching for the satisfaction that produces admiration, is present in parental relationships. The parents project onto their children an enormous impulse to live and love. However, many times this impulse is mediated…
A new family member is always a cause for joy. Everyone prepares to welcome the little one and to congratulate the happy parents. But the truth is this situation is not always as wonderful and perfect as we’d like it to…
Full-time moms do marvelous work, but can sometimes forget to take care of themselves. Worries, exhaustion, and multitasking can negatively influence their emotional health. It’s a very common problem, so let’s take a look at 5 self-care habits of healthy full-time moms…
Peter Pan is a well-known British play written by James M. Barrie. He wrote it for young children and debuted in London in 1904. It has a bit of a history. Before becoming a theatrical play, the character of Peter Pan…
Pain is an experience as complex as it is personal, which is why great care and communication are needed to respond to a patient’s needs. But, when we see children with chronic pain (pediatric chronic pain), communicating can be difficult…
We’ve all seen someone talking to themselves at least once. In fact, I’m sure you’ve done it a few times too. Children are true specialists in this. Many kids under the age of six seem to have a spontaneous, egocentric…
With the new ideas regarding education and positive discipline, the word “no” (usually used by our parents and grandparents) is often seen as an evil word. This makes many parents feel adrift, not knowing what to do to set boundaries.…
The elimination of body waste is a basic function that our body performs instinctively from birth. In the first years of life, elimination is a part of a process that eventually allows us to be completely autonomous. This evolutionary process…
Emotional blackmail is, unfortunately, a strategy that many parents use when bringing up their children. They use guilt, fear, intimidation, threats and often also patience and affection, all to get their children to do what they want. The truth of…
No one is exempt of being sad, not even children. The loss of someone, an unexpected circumstance, a missed opportunity… Sadness in children is more common than we think, that’s why we should be there for them whenever they need…
Values education is a broad, extensive, and ill-defined concept. Responsibility for values education doesn’t just fall to professors and teachers. Parents, and society in general, also have to be involved. However, we tend not to invest in values education as we…
Tom Robbins says that “it is never too late to have a happy childhood.” However, it is important that when we see signs of lack of affection in children, those gaps must be addressed. This is because no child deserves…