1. “Getting Results Without Raising Your Voice”,
Teaching Children Cooperation
The word “cooperate” means to work together with others for a common purpose. When adults tell a child they “want them to cooperate”, it often means they want them to do it their way or they want them to obey. Any attempt to control children, whether it is verbal or physical, can build resentment and/or resistance in them. The more children are forced to obey the stronger and more skilled their resistance becomes. While using controlling behaviors, daily activities (such as eating, sleeping, dressing, etc.) become a series of stressful pleadings, negotiations, threats and punishment.
Real cooperation, working together for a common purpose, is respectful behavior. Teaching children in a respectful way teaches them how to be respectful. By experiencing cooperative behaviors children learn the pleasures, advantages and responsibilities of belonging in their family and in their community.
Save yourself and your children all the pain of the “trial and error” method of learning cooperation. Through my 70,000-hours of working with children I have learned many cooperative skills. With these skills you will not need to raise your voice to get results.
2. Boost Your Child’s Happiness,
Raise Their Emotional Intelligence Quotient
Psychologists have studied the abilities associated with emotional intelligence for many years, and there is an impressive, and growing, body of research suggesting that these abilities are important for success in many areas of life. These studies indicate that social and emotional abilities are four times more important than IQ in determining professional success and prestige. (Feist & Barron, 1996)
Research has also shown that a person’s childhood abilities such as being able to handle frustration, control emotions, and getting along with others had the most impact on how well they did at work or in the rest of their lives.
It is never to soon or too late to teach children social skills that empower them. With my simple step-by-step plan you can raise their emotional intelligence quotient and bring more happiness into their lives.
3. 10 Fun Ways to Teach Children Sharing, Caring and Giving.
A child’s strongest desire is to belong, to feel connected to their families, friends, and pier group. The most effective way to achieve that connection is for the child to develop social skills that model reciprocal graciousness, appreciation, understanding, and affection.
By developing a healthy balance between the needs of the ego and altruistic behaviors like sharing, caring and giving, children can have the relationships they desire.
4. Loved in Deed.
More Ways to Show Children We Love Them.
5. How Much Is Enough?
Raising Children in an Age of Affluence.
6. Hidden Hazards,
Why Children Are at Risk.
7. What Children Want Most.
8. 5 Simple Ways to Keep Your Children Safe,
Avoiding Dangers in the Home
