My kids are thriving, and so am I." Ananya Khanna Parent Coach “My 7-year-old son was always hesitant to speak up in class and avoided social interactions. I didn’t realize my own anxious parenting was affecting his confidence. Preetjyot helped me shift my approach—teaching me how to...
Nearly 400 primary schools across Australia participated in the Thriving Kids and Parents Schools Project, a collaborative study involving researchers from the University of Adelaide, University of Queensland and Monash University. As part of the project, more than 4,500 school parents registered ...
Real & Practical Information for Raising Awesome Kids, Thriving in Motherhood and Living a Joyful Life.
Kids are often incapable of some of the expectations we place on them. Our expectations may be unrealistic for their stage of brain development. We can hope they’ll behave with self-discipline andself-control. But, until their brains mature, our kids are doing their best no matter what the...
Take time to plan the social component of the mealtime. Save stories from the day, jokes or riddles, and think of questions that get your kids talking. Some parents spend a lot of time preparing a meal but don’t prepare at all for the dialogue. That’s a mistake in many homes where...
Learn more about the Positive Conclusion in the book,Home Improvement, The Parenting Book You Can Read to Your Kids.The book contains many practical ideas for helping children change their hearts, not just their behavior. Enjoy as aneBook, apaperback, and now available as anaudiobookas well!
teachers, coaches, mentors, and a variety of other adults show up and do good work. How well each of us succeeds makes a difference to every child – and to every nation. So let’s change the conversation – and begin to ask questions that help kids develop the capacity to thrive in ...
The kids picked up clues along the way and each of them guessed where we were going at different points on our journey. The magical moment was when we drove past the Magic Kingdom and I saw my son’s dimpled smile as he said, “We’re going to Disneyland!” My mom made our Christ...
familial issues, such as experiences of violence and abuse and single parenting (including disruption with typically a father away at work for extended periods of time), younger kids associating with older kids (rural schools are K-12), and event-specific opportunities, such as rural bush parties...
(Dipinto & Turner,1997; O’Neill & McMahon,2012) yet the degree to which this has been practiced in positive psychology is unclear. For example, the two early learning years wellbeing programs discussed above (Zippy’s friends and YogaKids) make no mention of how the programs were designed...