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Smooth Transitions During Times of Change
The beginning of the school year means new classrooms, friends, programs, expectations, and more. Here are some tips to help parents recognize and address the complexities of change, setting the tone...
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How Parents Can Help Their Child Build Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is a worthwhile goal for parents to hold for their kids, and while parents are right to think they can have an impact on their kids’ developing self-confidence, there are two...
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Back to School Challenge: Enter to Win!
We’re giving away 48 author-signed copies of Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids to schools across Canada and the United States. We invite parents and teachers to send us...
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Getting Along with Others: Supporting Children’s Social Intelligence
Children and teens can experience social challenges at any point during the school year. Social context—including opportunities for interaction and collaboration with others—makes an enormous...
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Psychology Today blog postings
worried little girl Go to Going Beyond Intelligence to see Dona’s blogs on topics of interest to parents, including Mindfulness Strategies for Anxious Children: Three Secrets to Help Worried Kids be...
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Recent Blogs at Psychology Today and The Creativity Post
For recent blogs by Dona Matthews, go to Going Beyond Intelligence at Psychology Today For recent blogs by Joanne Foster, go to Fostering Kids’ Success at The Creativity Post
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Helping Young Kids Deal with Stress
http://www.kidsnowcanada.org/2016/08/helping-young-teens-deal-with-stress/
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How Much Homework is Too Much? 12-Step Pushback for Parents of Little Kids
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/going-beyond-intelligence/201609/how-much-homework-is-too-much-how-can-parents-push-back
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Happily Chatty Toddlers Who Start to Stutter
It’s terribly worrying, but not at all uncommon, for children who start talking early to experience a period of stuttering sometime between 18 months and 4 years of age. It can start all at once, and...
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Toddler Tantrums: Hitting, Kicking, Scratching, and Biting
Why Toddlers Get Aggressive, How to Respond to It, and What to Do to Prevent It Most toddlers get aggressive sometimes. Tantrums and aggressive behaviours—hitting, kicking, scratching, and...
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