Confident Kids: Boosting Your Son’s Self Esteem
Dear Adina, I know you have been talking a lot about girl’s self-esteem but what about boys? I need some help boosting my 7 year old son self-image. He seems very down on himself. I tell him that he is a great kid, and how much I love him but that does not seem to […]
It’s A Catastrophe! Helping Kids To Calm Down
As I have mentioned in earlier posts , I am really enjoying the book, “The Optimistic Child” by Martin Seligman. In it he states that children often engage in catastrophic thinking: “Sara did not sit next to me at lunch! She hates me.” According to Seligman, teaching children to decatastrophize is one of the most […]
Teaching Teachers: Praise That Doesn’t Demean, Criticism That Doesn’t Wound
Last night Courtney Evenchik and I ran our second workshop in the series based on the book, “How to Talk So Kids Can Learn” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, for teachers at a local pre-school in Cleveland. The topic was “Praise That Does Not Demean, Criticism That Doesn’t Wound” In the first week of the workshop we […]