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To Help Kids Succeed, Help Them Fail
By Kelly Huegel Madrone, author of LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens As mentors, how do we help kids succeed? Perhaps we’ve largely been starting with the wrong (or at least an unhelpful) question. … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Teaching
Tagged courage, Free Spirit author, kids and fear, learning from mistakes, resilience
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Helping Kids Find the Courage to Fail
By Kimberly Feltes Taylor and Eric Braun, coauthors of How to Take the ACHE Out of Mistakes When you suggest that your child or student try something new, do they typically respond in one of the following ways? I won’t … Continue reading
Helping Kids Cope with the Fear of Violence
By Stephanie Filio Every generation seems to have their own approach to protecting children against violence on TV. In the 1980s, parents were advised to keep their children from watching the news and MTV. In the ’90s, parent groups scolded … Continue reading
Posted in Counselor's Corner
Tagged emotions and behavior, kids and fear, parents, school counselor, stress
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Maybe the Cowardly Lion Was Right
By Allison Wedell Schumacher I’m afraid of heights. I don’t know why, but that’s the nature of phobias. They’re not necessarily rooted in experience or even logic. In cases like this, fear is hardwired into us—that fight-or-flight response that literally … Continue reading
Worries Are Not Forever: How to Recognize and Soothe Anxiety in Young Children
By Elizabeth Verdick, author of Worries Are Not Forever When I tell parents and teachers the title of my new children’s book, Worries Are Not Forever, they often say something like, “I need that immediately” or “Do you have one … Continue reading