Parenting Resources
Helping Elementary Age Children Develop Friendships Through Emotion Coaching
Spending time teaching children empathy and emotional self-control will have life long benefits, including the development and maintenance of friendships.
Helping Your Child Make Friends
The social skills necessary to develop friendships must be learned and reinforced in childhood to assure lifelong skills.
Elementary Age Children & Forgiveness
Children who learn to forgive will also be learning the life skill of how to deal with offenses and hurts they will experience later in life.
Teaching Children to Forgive
A person’s ability to forgive others directly impacts their physical and emotional well being
Elementary-age Children Need Father Figures
Children whose fathers are involved and caring have better educational outcomes, with better verbal skills and intellectual functioning.
The Importance of Fathers
When fathers are involved with their children, the children are more likely to excel academically and they have better physical and emotional health.
Helping your Elementary Age Child Develop Emotion Regulation
Emotion regulation is a crucial skill for the development of relationships and friendships because allows a child to regulate and react appropriately to his or her own emotions.
Teaching Respect to Elementary-Age Children
Ideas on teaching elementary-age children respect through responsibility and by modeling respectful behavior yourself
Teaching Children Respect for Themselves and Others
Research shows, when parents teach their children what it means to be respectful and to have respect for oneself and others, both parent and child reap the benefits.
Teaching Elementary Age Children to Take Initiative
The brains of children in this age group are still developing, so it’s a perfect time for them to learn behaviors that will contribute to a life time of success.