Slumberkins Blog

Your Child’s Mental Health

How to Know When It’s Time to Reach Out for HelpAs a company committed to helping families raise caring, confident, and resilient children, Slumberkins is grateful to be able to support parents and caregivers with tools and resources to teach...

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Squabbles, Scuffles, and Tussles

How to help your child navigate peer conflict at school.

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You Can Be in Their Heart Even When Apart

The clinging! The wailing! The teary-eyed pleas of desperation! Saying goodbye to our kids can be some of the most tension-filled moments on the parenting journey. It’s anxiety-provoking and heartbreaking all at the same time. We get it! When we...

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Create Back-to-School Stress Relief with Connection and Routine

Even during a regular year, the end of summer and beginning of fall marks a big transition for a lot of families. Back to school is a big shift with routine changes and social-emotional adjustments. But this year, the back-to-school...

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How to Encourage Children to Keep Trying

On Bigfoot’s last stop in his undersea adventure at Camp Slumberkins, he gets some inspiration to dig deep and keep on going. Will he finally achieve his goal of finding the magical Lost City? Our encouraging friend Manta Ray arrives just...

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Why Learning to Take Breaks is an Important Growth Mindset Skill

Taking a break is perhaps the most under-rated of all the growth mindset concepts, but we think it’s one of the most important. Resting, eating, and playing can help our kids feel refreshed and resilient. Bigfoot’s third stop on his...

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How to Help Children Build Flexible Thinking Skills

At this year’s Camp Slumberkins, Bigfoot gets off to a great start on his undersea adventure. But then he hits a snag when the currents get strong, and his methods don’t seem to be working. Flexible Jelly arrives just in...

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How to Encourage Children to Try Their Best

At this year’s Camp Slumberkins, Bigfoot gets some big help to learn how to practice having a growth mindset. His friend Narwhal teaches him to try his best as he struggles with fear and insecurity about learning how to swim....

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How to Answer your Preschooler’s Questions about Death

It is very common for 3 and 4-year-olds to ask ‘why’ questions. Preschoolers are curious explorers of the world with an insatiable appetite for new information. A topic that can sometimes catch parents off guard is one of ‘death and...

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9 Activities to Promote Kindness in the Classroom

After an isolating year, there is even greater need for us to reconnect this spring. Here are 9 activities that can help. 

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9 Ways to Connect with Your Community this Spring

 This winter has been especially difficult and isolating for many. Here are some ways we suggest to connect with your community this Spring. 

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Shedding Light on Core Beliefs

This article explore the concepts of core beliefs and answers the questions as to what they are, why they matter, and how we set our kids up for success by instilling adaptive beliefs early on?

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