The Motivator Molecule
To truly change children’s behaviors, parents need to understand how to boost dopamine in natural and positive ways.
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Situational Awareness
It is essential to teach children to be perceptive and educate them on situational awareness skills to improve their safety.
Parent SKILLZ 6: Nurturing
Nurturing means changing the behavior, not the child. Look at their mistakes as opportunities for education versus punishment.
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!
Hello Spring & Hello Opportunity
The powerful promise of new beginnings is once again upon us! Outside our front doors, the clear blue skies with warm, golden sunshine, emerging green grass, budding
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.
