Happy new year! May you have lots to celebrate in 2017. The start of the year is like having a clean slate to start over. It’s like putting everything gone-by away and receiving a second (or third, or fourth) chance to get it right! Resolutions made at the start of the year seem more able to […]
parenting
Turning to Science to Keep Your Child Motivated
THERE ARE A FEW truths about motivation: Multiple studies have explored the question of motivation in children: they have focused on why some children give up, why others succeed despite enormous difficulty, and why yet other children set goals they can’t possibly achieve. Motivation matters. Much evidence suggests that children’s ability to persist through difficulty predicts […]
Controlling Children’s Tantrums: 6 Tips to Foster Self-Control
MY PARTNER STILL recalls the day our son decided to throw a royal tantrum. He was about three then. It happened on an afternoon when he had accompanied his father to do the family shopping. My partner doesn’t quite remember what sparked the tantrum. What he remembers, though, are the feelings of helplessness when our […]
Talking Money to Young Children: 7 things to keep in mind
OUR FIRST ATTEMPT to “talk money” to our son was a dismal failure. We had come up with a list on which we had written approximately 100 tasks and activities and each of these had a certain number of points. We didn’t want the list to be too “work-oriented” so we had included multiple activities: • […]
Why Establishing Family Traditions is Important
I just love family traditions. As a child, I loved listening to my mom talk about all the things they’d do as a family or the things that her mum always did on specific occasions. Years later, she still remembered that stuff. That’s the thing about family traditions – we tend to remember family traditions […]