This innovation, this ability to think outside the box, is a huge asset that will serve him well later in life — if we can figure out how to navigate these early years in a way that celebrates and channels his creative impulses.
Category: parenting
Please Stop Telling My Kid He’s Smart
Dear World, let’s talk. I’ve been spending hours upon hours on character training, talking about kindness, respect, reading books that model healthy social relationships, and you seem insistent on highlighting my kid’s intelligence. We know he’s smart. He knows he’s smart. He’s been told since he was 1. In fact, he’s overconfident in his own…
It’s Not that Simple! – Big Emotions and Major Life Events
recently it’s becoming clearer that his unwillingness to approach these subjects is actually much more closely related to Emotional Overexcitabilities (OEs). He feels things so deeply that things which would, for others, be joyful, end up being excruciatingly overstimulating. The tooth fairy isn’t fun. She’s terrifying in the anticipation of when/what/how much.
Chain Reactions in Slo-Mo
I love domino runs for what they teach kids – the planning, patience, fine motor control, cause & effect, variables, spatial reasoning, and our kids love the cool effects, especially when we film it in slow motion and they get to watch them fall again & again.
Cleaning Fun
Yesterday, 3.5yo E declared, “I’m good at cleaning!” And you know what? She is. She has been given appropriate jobs with support and practice, and she does a good job.
5 Steps to Learning a New Skill
Learning is a process. And as much as we want our kids to have learned, we want, even more, for them to know how to learn. To be comfortable with asking for help and being learners, in those messy intermediate steps.
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