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Category Archives: Teaching Social/Emotional Skills
Don’t Eat That Marshmallow Or You’ll Hurt Your S.A.T. Scores!
Setting: Our family computer Stephen (12): “I want to show you something awesome Ben taught me to do on Google Earth!” Daniel (10): “I got here first! I want to watch that YouTube video Colin sent me!” Annie (7): “Well, … Continue reading
Teaching Kids Persistence
All three of our kids play soccer on local teams. Early on Todd and I chose soccer as a sport to start with in our family mostly because it requires you to run hard. With three active kids living in … Continue reading
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Tagged failure, helping kids with failure, kids and learned helplessness, kids and mastery, kids taking on challenges, kids tolerate failure, Martin Seligman, my kid can't hang in there, my kid never sticks with things, optimistic not pessimistic kids, persistence, soccer and persistence, teaching kids optimism, what kids get from soccer
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Homemade Gifts and The Green Triangle
As I write this I am just a few days past the valentine making-phase I go through each year with our kids. This year, since our oldest is in middle school, only Annie and Daniel made valentines for their classmates. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Callenbach, green behavior changes, green triangle, homemade gifts, homemade valentines, kids and gratitude, kids giving compliments, kids read social environments, my kid needs to learn some social skills, my kid needs to learn to be nicer
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Teaching Kids About Microfinance
For Christmas this year, Todd’s sister, Annie, gave each of my kids a $25 gift certificate to Kiva, an online microfinance organization. Ever since I discovered Kiva it has been one of my favorite, inspirational nonprofits. Sometimes when I’m having … Continue reading
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Tagged charity gifts for kids, gratitude, Half the Sky, Katie Smith Milway, kids and microfinance, Kiva, microloans, my kids get too much stuff for gifts, Nicholas Kristof, non-material gift ideas for kids, non-things gifts for kids, One Hen book, Sheryl WuDunn, teaching kids gratitude, teaching kids to give back
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Paying Kids for Failing: A Backward Reward System That Worked for Me
My stepfather, Dan, passed away last June and I dearly miss him. The most recent reason is that he was the person I’d phone first when I’d failed at something. Dan entered my life when I was 9 and heavily … Continue reading
Boys Babysitting: Kim Was Right.
Last autumn, we were at our local park with our neighbor, Kim and her children, Jessie (3) and Ben (4). It was one of those outings which unfolded smoothly (no screaming, no bleeding, no excluding). Little Jessie informed my 11 … Continue reading
An Attitude of Gratitude: Teaching Children to be Grateful
I dread the school Book Fair! Three times a year some company sends our elementary school a sort of “Book Fair in a box” which is set up in our library. I realize these Book Fairs make money for our … Continue reading
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