by Susie Windle | Jul 31, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
As parents, we become expert about a child’s body. For example, we know that a fever occurs when our child’s body temperature is above 98.6 degrees, and we know to clean a cut he or she has suffered to avoid infection. It is also important for parents to understand...
by Susie Windle | Jul 24, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
Research findings suggest that the quality of conversations we have with our children make a strong case for putting down our cell phones. To learn more about children’s language development, researchers attached small digital recorders to a group of children as a way...
by Susie Windle | Jun 19, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Sensory Information, Your Child's Brain
Children can be, and most often are, quite resilient. That does not mean they are immune to stress, however, or to its resulting responses in the brain and body. In fact, children are highly vulnerable to stress during the first few years of life. As a parent, you can...
by Susie Windle | May 8, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Sensory Information, The Importance of Emotions, The Power of Play, Your Child's Brain
According to many research studies, moving our bodies directly affects our brain chemistry. When we change our physical state, we change our emotional state. This means that moving can help kids reset emotionally, and resetting emotionally will allow them to feel...
by Susie Windle | Mar 13, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Sensory Information, The Importance of Emotions, Your Child's Brain
For a toddler, the reasons to resist bedtime and sleep can be many. Some toddlers feel they are losing control when they let sleep take over. Others have a hard time giving up the fun they have when they are awake and with the rest of the family. Some toddlers feel...
by Susie Windle | Mar 6, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
Dyslexia has historically been considered a developmental reading disorder. But parents, teachers, and other children’s caregivers may be interested to know that new research suggests that assumption may be inaccurate. According to a new report in Current Biology,...
by Susie Windle | Feb 13, 2013 | Discipline and Trying Times, Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
Children differ in their rate of development of self-regulation. Because of this difference, it can seem that some children won’t follow instructions when in every other way they seem perfectly capable of taking direction and completing tasks. Children can even seem...
by Susie Windle | Jan 30, 2013 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
The benefits we receive from the technology that has become part of our lives are definitely many. Yet, if we are not mindful, our children can spend the majority of their time relating to their world by way of machines. In some cases, children spend more time in...
by Susie Windle | Oct 31, 2012 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain
Self-esteem refers to the judgments individuals make about themselves. These judgments connect to their own worth as a person as well as to the feelings that are associated with those judgments. People tend to have a global appraisal of their worth along with a...
by Susie Windle | Sep 19, 2012 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, The Importance of Emotions, Your Child's Brain
Words can hurt. In fact, words—along with the tone of voice that delivers them—can do real damage. Just think about comments that have been directed your way over the years. Comments of criticism, shame, rejection, anger, or mockery have an impact on our feelings,...
