Understanding Your Child’s Personality Type

Understanding your child’s personality type and temperament is invaluable as a parent, teacher or anyone who works with kids. As an parent educator and coach, it helps me to create strategies and interventions for parents and children. Differences in personality and temperament impact parent/child interactions in countless ways. For example, let’s look at the intense […]

How to Help Your Child Succeed in School

How to help your child succeed in school

There are so many options out there for school openings this year. It can get pretty confusing. Many schools are closed and are operating virtually, some are using blended learning, staggering days and having both virtual and in person options. Some are just opening with social distancing practices in place. However, there are still things […]

8 Sample Scripts for Positive Parenting

Positive Parenting

When I started working at Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau as a facilitator for Faber and Mazlish’s “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen Workshop,” I loved all the skills that I taught to parents. But there was one piece of the parenting puzzle that captured my imagination…all too often we label children, we treat them […]