This is a guest post by Dr. Dawn Brown Psych MD. Even as an adult, conversations about mental illness are tough. For kids, mental illness can be completely bewildering, especially if they’re watching someone they love walk through it or experiencing it themselves. As a parent, your instinct may be to protect your child from… {read more}
Communication with Kids
How to Talk to Kids About Body Image
It seems like everywhere our family goes these days, we cannot avoid advertisements featuring semiclad, photoshopped and unrealistically photogenic people. They are on the back of buses, on billboards, in shop windows, on food and toy labels, in magazines and media wherever we look. I can’t help but worry about the messages these advertisements are sending… {read more}
Communication Skills for Kids {Free Printable}
We all want our children to communicate respectfully. But what exactly does that mean and how can we explain it to them? Communication is made up not only of words and their meaning but facial expression, body language, and the influence on the listener. Thanks to Vecteezy, a comprehensive online collection of graphics, I have… {read more}
How to Talk to Kids About “Bad” Behaviour
Every parent has a different opinion about what “bad” behaviour is. If it’s so hard to define, how can we speak of it to our children? I’m thankful to have a special guest on the blog today to help us explore this topic. Nicole Schwarz is a mom to 3 girls, a Parent Coach with… {read more}
How to Talk to Your Kids About Being Happy
Do you want your kids to be happy? Of course you do! We all do… But how many parents actually talk to their kids about how to lead a happy life and what it actually means to be happy? Ellen Jackson from Potential Psychology is The People Potential Specialist. She writes about human experience and why we… {read more}
How to Talk to Your Kids About Feelings
We all experience different feelings every day: happiness, sadness, pride, anger, surprise, anxiety and many more. Do your kids know the names of these different emotions? Do they know how to cope with them? I’m excited to have Janine Halloran here on the blog today, who is the founder of Coping Skills for Kids where… {read more}
How to Talk to Kids About Scary News
Communication is a huge part of relationships. We talk to our kids every day. They are learning from our verbal and non-verbal behaviour, as well as taking in information from everyone else around them. As parents, it can sometimes be confronting to discuss different issues with our kids. What do we say? How much detail… {read more}
