Who doesn’t want to be calm and connected while taming big emotions? “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” Brené Brown. It’s not easy staying connected to your child when they are…
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Two Mindset Practices to TAME BIG EMOTIONS.
Growing Independence – Growth Mindset in Action.
Our role as parents in raising conscious, contributing, caring, capable and compassionate adults is to teach, guide and support. Teaching, guiding and supporting can come with a massive sense of responsibility and add confusion, exhaustion and overwhelm to the mix and you can see why we can think it is easier to do things for ourselves. We encourage and teach…
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Growth Mindset Praise – Not all praise is created equal.
I have many parents and educators ask me about Praise and share their confusion with it. I’ll give it a go to explain it as briefly as possible. And yes, there is such a thing as too much Praise. As parents and educators, we do not need to be praising everything a child does. With the research on Mindsets, it’s…
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DAILY ACTS OF GRATITUDE
Sustaining Joy and Happiness. “We’re not grateful because we’re happy. We’re happy because we’re grateful.” Brother David Stendl-Rast Focusing on the positive improves our growth mindset and makes us happier. By savouring positive emotions we rewire the brain. Feeling gratitude lifts us out of the mind’s usual restless feeling of “not enough” into the joy of sufficiency. The joy of…
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An unconventional survival guide for the big leap of school.
If you and your child are making the big leap into their new learning environments at school. I hear you. I see you. You’ve got this. And I’ll see you on the flip side as my son moves into Year 10 this year. One thing I know for sure with our family is, whatever happens, we all grow a lot…
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