Parent SKILLZ 6: Nurturing
Nurturing means changing the behavior, not the child. Look at their mistakes as opportunities for education versus punishment.
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Parent SKILLZ 5: Edutainment
Be the parent your child needs you to be. When you edutain, you help your child learn in a behavior that they embrace.
Parent SKILLZ 4: Consistency
Be as consistent and reliable as possible with your child as you can, regardless of your mood, and they will learn to be consistent and reliable with you, too.
Parent SKILLZ 3: Connection
One of the most important things that you can do as a parent is establish a connection with your child. In fact, children need connection more than anything else.
Parent SKILLZ 2: Attunement
Improving your attunement skills will allow you to create a more patient and understanding relationship with your child.
Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.
Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!
Parent SKILLZ 1: Adaptability
Adaptability is about how you respond to your child, especially when things do not go as planned.
Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.
Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!
Should I Worry?
While it’s not always easy to discriminate between typical teenage moodiness and depression, observing behaviors that are continuous and persistent are cause for concern.
Rapid Resets
So how do we get children back to a place of reasoning? By hacking into the parasympathetic nervous system with effective methods.
Nature And Nurture
At some point, all parents have toyed with thoughts of which one has most influenced their child: nature or nurture. But studies show its both!
Elf SKILLZ #7 – Healthiness
Our seventh ELF SKILLZ Lesson is all about HEALTHINESS. It means taking care of your body!
To help develop HEALTHINESS, our Elf SKILLZ challenges are 1- Eating Healthy Food, 2 – Exercising, and 3 – Learning.
