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Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with schools to help kids get through tasks and transitions

Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with schools to help kids get through tasks and transitions

Cooperation, Highly Sensitive Children, lessons from the trenches, Limit-Setting With Love, Parenting Mindshifts, Social/emotional dev, TransitionsClaire LernerJanuary 9, 2025children, challenges, social emotional development

Positive Discomfort: The stress of learning something new or facing a challenge is helpful, not harmful

Positive Discomfort: The stress of learning something new or facing a challenge is helpful, not harmful

Highly Sensitive Children, Nurturing Problem-Solvers, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerDecember 21, 2024resilience, social emotional development, grit

How The Obsession With Validating Feelings Is Failing Our Children (and resulting in less, not more, emotional regulation)

How The Obsession With Validating Feelings Is Failing Our Children (and resulting in less, not more, emotional regulation)

Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerMay 29, 2024child development, Parenting

When Less Is So Much More In Supporting Your Big Reactor

When Less Is So Much More In Supporting Your Big Reactor

Highly Sensitive Children, Positive Parenting, Parenting MindshiftsClaire LernerMay 5, 2024big reactors, highly sensitive children, Positive parenting

How To Support Vs. Enable Your Highly Sensitive Child

How To Support Vs. Enable Your Highly Sensitive Child

Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Parenting MindshiftsClaire LernerSeptember 19, 2023highly sensitive children

You Are Not A Helicopter Parent. You Are Your Child's Emotional Support Parent

You Are Not A Helicopter Parent. You Are Your Child's Emotional Support Parent

Highly Sensitive Children, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerSeptember 12, 2023child development, parenting

How To Be A "Gentle" Parent When You Have A Big Reactor

How To Be A "Gentle" Parent When You Have A Big Reactor

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular Blogs, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Discipline, Social/emotional devClaire LernerFebruary 15, 2023Big reactors, gentle parenting, co-regulation

“It’s All Your Fault!” Why Your Child Blames You For Everything (and how to help kids learn to take responsibility for their mistakes)

“It’s All Your Fault!” Why Your Child Blames You For Everything (and how to help kids learn to take responsibility for their mistakes)

Highly Sensitive Children, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerJanuary 11, 2023Positive parenting

When NOT To Apologize To Your Child

When NOT To Apologize To Your Child

Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerOctober 2, 2022Apologizing to kids

Stop Working So Hard To Calm Your Kids!

Stop Working So Hard To Calm Your Kids!

Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, lessons from the trenches, Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerMay 31, 2022Positive parenting, calming kids, self-regulation

The Lowdown On Limits

The Lowdown On Limits

Positive Parenting, Positive Discipline, Parenting MindshiftsClaire LernerMay 13, 2022Positive parenting, positive discipline, challenging behaviors

Negative Self-Talk: Why it happens and what you can do

Negative Self-Talk: Why it happens and what you can do

Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerMarch 13, 2022Negative self talk, children, social emotional development, parenting

4 Key Insights and Strategies for Responding to Big Reactors

4 Key Insights and Strategies for Responding to Big Reactors

Challenging Behaviors, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Decoding behavior, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerDecember 7, 2021

Course Corrections: Key Insights Into Children's Behavior (Nov. 2021)

Course Corrections: Key Insights Into Children's Behavior (Nov. 2021)

lessons from the trenches, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Decoding behaviorClaire LernerNovember 15, 2021Positive parenting

"Mommy, You Are A Toilethead!" Why Not to Take Your Child's Words and Actions At Face Value

"Mommy, You Are A Toilethead!" Why Not to Take Your Child's Words and Actions At Face Value

Challenging Behaviors, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Discipline, Parental self-awarenessClaire LernerNovember 1, 2021children, Positive parenting

Decoding Children's Behavior: Key insights from the parenting trenches

Decoding Children's Behavior: Key insights from the parenting trenches

lessons from the trenches, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Decoding behaviorClaire LernerAugust 4, 2021behavior, parenting, going to preschool

When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do

When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Parenting Mindshifts, Social/emotional dev, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerApril 5, 2021challenging behavior, kindness, social emotional development

What Your Child Really Needs: Lessons from my own parenting journey

What Your Child Really Needs: Lessons from my own parenting journey

lessons from the trenches, Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, Parental self-awarenessClaire LernerDecember 30, 2020Positive parenting