Emotional Development
Information and resources for children's emotional development.
Children's Cliques
As children learn about having friends and being friends in elementary school, cliques tend to form. Acceptance by a group is important to all humans, but the harmful power of cliques can be enhanced or diminished by the influence of adults and peers in the social environment.
As children learn about having friends and being friends in elementary school, cliques tend to form. Acceptance by a group is important to all humans, but the harmful power of cliques can be enhanced or diminished by the influence of adults and peers in the social environment.
How to Help Your Child Make Friends
You can help your child make and keep friends; but it takes understanding your child's social style, a little behind-the-scenes cultivation of opportunities for making friends, and taking the time to teach good social skills.
You can help your child make and keep friends; but it takes understanding your child's social style, a little behind-the-scenes cultivation of opportunities for making friends, and taking the time to teach good social skills.
Attachment Parenting of Older Children
How to carry the principles of attachment parenting into the school-age years.
How to carry the principles of attachment parenting into the school-age years.
Parenting Traps - The Indulgence Trap
How to avoid the problems related to overindulging your child.
How to avoid the problems related to overindulging your child.
Parenting Traps - The Sympathy Trap
How to help your child develop emotionally by avoiding the sympathy trap.
How to help your child develop emotionally by avoiding the sympathy trap.
Character Education
The qualities of character develop through an interplay of family, school, church, and community influences and the child's individual temperament, experiences, and choices. What can parents do to encourage their child's development of the qualities of good character?
The qualities of character develop through an interplay of family, school, church, and community influences and the child's individual temperament, experiences, and choices. What can parents do to encourage their child's development of the qualities of good character?
Tips for Teaching Altruism to Children
Finding opportunities for teaching your child to be altruistic, a vital emotional and social skill. Also, good deeds for families.
Finding opportunities for teaching your child to be altruistic, a vital emotional and social skill. Also, good deeds for families.
Faith and the Family - A Model for Spiritual Development
A New Testament model for the stages of spiritual development.
A New Testament model for the stages of spiritual development.
Social Skills Lesson Plans for Middle School
Dozens of social skills explained step-by-step for preteens.
Dozens of social skills explained step-by-step for preteens.