Posts Tagged ‘parental intelligence’
Do You Know What Your Child Does in School All Day? 8 Ways to Find Out
What Does Your Child Do in School All Day? Every morning we send our kids off for six or more hours at their school but do we really know what’s going on? We see progress reports, grades, and an occasional email, but what are they learning and achieving? How are they socializing? How do they…
Read MoreParents Role in Education – 10 Ways to Educate at Home
Parents Involvement in Education at Home How do children learn? Certainly, it’s our job as parents to send our kids to schools, be their advocates in getting a fine education, ascertaining special services as needed, and taking the time to learn how the curriculum is organized. But what about our role at home? Ten Ways…
Read MoreHow Prolonged Divorce Plans Affect Children
How Long Should Divorce Proceedings Actually Take? When parents contemplate divorce, it’s usually a long, intense, thoughtful process. It may start with intensive quarelling or silent treatment building up over several years. Parents often are conflicted as to how a divorce will affect their children, so they take their time contemplating what to do. This…
Read MoreThe Reading Bond
Do you enjoy reading Parenting Books? Here’s one to try– UNLOCKING PARENTAL INTELLIGENCE: FINDING MEANING IN YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOR found on amazon, barnes & noble, familius and wherever books are sold. To Read with Your Child is Such a Joy One of the joys of being a parent is to read to your child.…
Read More7 Ways to Develop Trust with Your Teen using Parental Intelligence
Using Parental Intelligence with Your Teen Parental Intelligence makes the parent-teenage relationship run smoothly.It’s so important to develop a trusting relationship with your teen. But teens like to feel independent. So how do you do it without feeling intrusive? How do you respect your teen’s need for autonomy and developing their own ways of doing…
Read MoreA Successful Working Mother Battles Bi-Polar Disorder
Sucessful Working Mothers How do women measure success? Is it by mothering and having a career? How do they carry out both forms of work to their satisfaction? What helps? What hurts? This is a weekly series about successful women who participate in the workforce in a range of ways building their careers while mothering.…
Read More20 Ways Not to Talk to Your Teenage Daughter – Then How to Fix Things
Oh Our Teenage Daughters!! Teenage girls are sensitive to the way people in authority talk to them, especially their mothers. They are easily wounded, feel criticized, and vulnerable when they sense or get outright disapproval. However, even the most devoted mothers are only trying to shape them up to be young women and don’t understand…
Read MoreJuicy January Hints for Listening to Kids and Having Them Listen to You
Listening to Kids It’s a new year and time for building new relationships with kids. How do we listen to them and get to know them better, so we’re really there for them when they need us? I always remember that feeling, “Am I really listening or is my mind on something else as well?”…
Read MoreThe New Year Bonanza in Parenting Books: Unlocking Parental Intelligence
Why do Children Do What they Do? What’s on Their Minds? How Can Parents Know their Child’s Inner World? Unlocking Parental Intelligence lifts the curtain on these questions by helping parents become “meaningmakers” who understand the significance behind their kids’ behaviors. Experienced psychoanalyst Laurie Hollman, Ph.D., reveals five enlightening steps to help parents solve problems…
Read MoreMy 14 New Year’s Resolutions using Parental Intelligence
1. When I face puzzling behaviors, I promise not to react immediately but Step Back, take my time calmly, and survey the situation. 2. I will become a “Meaning-Maker” which means I will take my time to understand the meaning behind a misbehavior. Only then will I know what to do. 3. I promise to…
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