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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

When Your Child Has A Pessimistic Outlook

When Your Child Has A Pessimistic Outlook

Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerJuly 18, 2024

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

The Trouble With Transitions: Why They Are So Hard For Some Kids And How To Help

The Trouble With Transitions: Why They Are So Hard For Some Kids And How To Help

Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional dev, Cooperation, TransitionsClaire LernerApril 2, 2024transitions, child development, challenging behaviors

I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents

I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents

Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerMarch 11, 2024

Demand Avoidance: When Kids Vehemently And Consistently Resist Directions

Demand Avoidance: When Kids Vehemently And Consistently Resist Directions

Challenging Behaviors, Decoding behavior, Highly Sensitive Children, Positive ParentingClaire LernerJanuary 9, 2024PDA, Demand Avoidance, Challenging child behaviors, Parenting

"This Is the WORST DAY EVER!"

"This Is the WORST DAY EVER!"

Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional devClaire LernerDecember 1, 2023children, highly sensitive children, child development, Positive parenting

When Kids Act Like Dictators

When Kids Act Like Dictators

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Positive ParentingClaire LernerOctober 29, 2023kids, demanding behavior, challenging behaviors

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 Help Avoidant Kids Take on Challenges And Work Through Fears

How To Help Avoidant Kids Take on Challenges And Work Through Fears

Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerJune 7, 2023hesitant kids

How To Teach Lessons to Kids Who Can't Tolerate Being Corrected

How To Teach Lessons to Kids Who Can't Tolerate Being Corrected

Challenging Behaviors, Decoding behavior, Highly Sensitive Children, Positive Discipline, Social/emotional devClaire LernerMarch 21, 2023discipline, child development

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

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

5 Ways to Help a Hesitant Child Try New Things

5 Ways to Help a Hesitant Child Try New Things

Highly Sensitive Children, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerMarch 28, 2022

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