Slumberkins Blog
FOR PARENTS
The inner voice is the quiet, wise place inside all of us that knows what is right for us. By the time we are adults, we have received many messages from the world that complicate our relationship to our inner...
Connection to Exploration
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...
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...
10 Ways to Manage Sibling Conflict this Summer
Summer is around the corner, and that means more time at home together. On Ask a Therapist Thursday, we consistently hear that parents struggle to manage their children's conflict while working at home. Before the summer brings us heightened squabbles...
The Importance of Imaginative Play
Play is how young children explore, communicate, and learn about the world. So much of the time, we adults insist that children learn our ways of the world, but what would happen if we learned more about their ways? If...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 expressions, even when that’s hard to do. It stands in contrast to the old “tough guy” model, emerging as a new path...
One in 7.7 Billion: Raising Children to be Their Authentic Self
Earth is home to more than 7.7 billion humans, and your little one is different from every single one of them. In fact, there has never been another person throughout the entirety of human history that was or is exactly...
Relaxation Activities for Children
We’re sharing our favorite healthy parenting tips and products to work through a relaxation routine with young children. Winding down is such an important part of the day for little bodies, but it can seem like the most daunting or...