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The Path for Positive Social-Emotional Development All parents want their children to grow up confident in themselves and engaged in healthy relationships. The question is… how do we support our children to get there? Sometimes having more information about what...

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How to Support a Young Child with Grief and Loss

Grief is a natural emotional response to a loss. Loss can be associated with a big change (like moving, or not being able to see your friends during a pandemic), or it could even be the death of a loved...

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10 Ways to Manage Sibling Conflict this Summer

Summertime means more time at home together, and this summer is shaping up to be a long one. Many families have already spent months at home together, quarantining during state-wide shutdowns, and many more are waiting to see what school...

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The Importance of Imaginative Play

Play is how children explore, communicate and learn about the world. So much of the time, we adults are insisting that children learn our ways of the world, but what would happen if we learned more about their ways? If...

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Express Emotions and Build Self-Esteem

Help your Child Express Emotions and Build Self-Esteem: Three phrases to help you set limits while allowing your child to express themselves. Children enter into this world with different temperaments and personalities, but they are also shaped by their environments. Whether...

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How Do I Teach My Child Patience?

“Sorry, you’ll have to wait for that,” we say to our children, a million times a day- according to them. To be honest, it can feel like a million times a day to us too! One thing we love about...

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Helping Children Feel Safe & Secure

We all want our children to feel self-confident, but what can caregivers do to help children feel good about themselves? Well, it turns out, one of the biggest things caregivers can do, is provide their child with the opportunity to...

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4 Ways to Help Your Child Build Self-Esteem

Self-esteem refers to a person’s beliefs about their own value and worth. In early childhood, having positive self-esteem is critical as children begin to explore the world. They need confidence in themselves in order to explore new things.   So...

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Raising Our Future Leaders with Empathy

A new way, a new strong. Emotional Courage is about noticing and expressing your own feelings, and listening to others’ emotional expression, even when that’s hard to do. It stands in contrast to the old “tough guy” model, emerging as a new path...

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Connected Heart-to-Heart

NEW CREATURE! Otter supports Family Bonding… and there really couldn’t be a better time for family bonding, transition, and acceptance than now in this current environment. With so much change to family routines, this sweet Otter’s story reminds children that we...

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Your families mental health starts with yours. A post from our co-Founder, co-CEO, and resident family therapist, Kelly Oriard.

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Feelings Feature: We are in this together.

Our world has changed drastically in the past month. We are all striving to embrace a new normal, to set a new routine, to learn and work in a new way. But what we will recall when we look back at this...

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