Insights For Parents
A unique, state-of-the-art website designed to help you skillfully nurture both your child and yours
Insights For Parents is designed for parents of the millennium. It offers accurate, expert, contemporary information from the broad new discipline of developmental science to explain important stages and processes children’s development from birth through adulthood. You will learn how your child thinks and interacts with the physical and social world during different periods and will gain insights
29/10/2020
Did you catch what Joe Biden said during the debates when Trump taunted him with derogatory comments about his son, Hunter, – that he used co***ne, that he didn’t have a job for a long time? Those comments were meant as barbs to shame Biden and put him on the defense. But what Biden said is, “I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.”
When your child stumbles do you feel Shame or Love???? Check out this week’s MicroPractice. https://insightsforparents.com/micro/?doing_wp_cron=1604000161.9095981121063232421875
15/05/2019
Quote for May 15
Have you read our article about easy Ways To Be A Positive Voice for your child? And the power that has??
Find it here:
https://insightsforparents.com/ahdadults-be-a-postive-voice/
14/05/2019
Our quote for May 14 is filled to the brim with wisdom!!!!!
13/05/2019
Quote for May 13
12/05/2019
Our Quote for Mother's Day 2019
12/05/2019
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!
11/05/2019
For May 11
TOMORROW IS MOTHER'S DAY!
Please be sure to check out our wonderful MicroPractice, inviting you to reflect on what it means to be a mother.
https://insightsforparents.com/micro/?doing_wp_cron=1557381550.2542378902435302734375
10/05/2019
Quote For May 10
True for us, true too for our children (and sometimes hard for us parents to grasp)
09/05/2019
Quote For May 9
09/05/2019
Enjoy this week's wonderful MicroPractice, reflecting on what it means to be a mother.
https://insightsforparents.com/micro/?doing_wp_cron=1557381550.2542378902435302734375
02/05/2019
Quote for May 2
01/05/2019
The third article in my series, "Insights on Discipline" draws on some ancient wisdom to "take care of it before it happens." You'll find ideas for helping your child behave successfully by guiding in advance instead or correcting afterwards.
https://insightsforparents.com/arparenting-discipline3-guide-in-advance/
Insights On Discipline Part 3: State Expectations and Offer Guidance In Advance Offering guidance to children in advance of events is a way of preparing children to be skillful. It is setting them up to be successful rather than to struggle with incompetence and a lack of inf…
01/05/2019
Quote for May 1
One of the executive functions (power and control in cognition) is flexible thinking. One way to nurture it is though imagination and fantasy. Plus it's totally fun. If you have a hard time embracing it for fun, maybe you can open to it for the way it supports cognition. (And the fun will be a bonus)
30/04/2019
Stumped for ways to practice kindness or ideas for your kids to practice it? I just found this idea-packed article full of suggestions:
http://www.momentsaday.com/acts-of-kindness-for-families/
52 Acts of Kindness for Families with Young Children - Moments A Day Busy with young kids but still want to make a difference? Here is a list of acts of kindness for families - simple and fun ways you can enjoy serving together.
30/04/2019
Our quote for April 30
Holding this in mind is a powerful way to counterbalance our current cultural drive to push kids.
29/04/2019
I've been giving quite a few talks recently about how screen time can lead to children experiencing stress. I've also been working with clients to help them design good rules for screen use with kids. Adults to experience this kind of stress. Here's one overview.
And please call or write to me if you would like some help making plans for your own family's screen use
[email protected]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/well/mind/putting-down-your-phone-may-help-you-live-longer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health.
29/04/2019
Quote for April 29
We put so much stress on parents to learn and do the "right" things. So much advice (yes, I know, mine included...) But I want to remind all of my clients and readers -- trust yourself and pay attention to your inner wisdom.
28/04/2019
Have you laughed with your child today?
Quote for April 28
28/04/2019
Just thinking....
24/04/2019
Quote For April 24
23/04/2019
Quote for April 23
22/04/2019
Quote for April 22
21/04/2019
Happy Easter!!!! Sunday, April 21
20/04/2019
Saturday, April 20th
During this Passover and Easter season, may we remember and teach our children that ......
19/04/2019
chag Pesach kasher vesame’ach
Happy Passover. Our quote for April 19
18/04/2019
Quote for April 18
If you need a little more reassurance on this, you may want to read (or re-read) our first Guiding Principle, "Love Genuinely"
https://insightsforparents.com/principles/love-genuinely/?doing_wp_cron=1555433800.0898070335388183593750
17/04/2019
Quote for April 17
(Just another reminder about how valuable playing is for kids -- and all of us)
16/04/2019
TRADITIONS CREATE DEEP CONNECTIONS
Traditions, such as those celebrated at Passover and Easter, help convey the sacred. They also transmit culture, values, and offer special moments for connecting to others. They create webs of meaning and significance. They lift us from ordinary to special and remind us of our nobler qualities. Children – like us – don’t long remember gifts, toys and candy given on holidays. They remember the warmth, traditions, and feeling of connectedness. Whether your children are toddlers, tweens or teens, they will love sharing the warmth of traditions.
chag Pesach samech and Happy Easter
Please try our special MicroPractice for Passover and Easter, posted April 15 – April 22.
https://insightsforparents.com/micro/
16/04/2019
Quote For April 16
and a reminder that imaginitve play is a great catalyst for social, emotional and intellectual development.
15/04/2019
Quote For April 15