I have been loving these holiday gift guides from ! They are stuffed with creative gift ideas you wouldn't normally find. Here are a few of my favorites from guide #4!!Emotional health lays the foundation for all other learning. Your kids express feelings while doing what they love best — Play!Big, cushy, comforting Meebie has swappable parts...
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Ten essential tips to help your gifted teen plan for college
Gifted teens typically receive little help with college planning from their schools. Efforts to improve gifted education tend to focus on what happens in class. And just as their learning needs are frequently ignored in the classroom (they'll do just fine; they’ll learn on their own!), it is often assumed that with their smarts, they will easily get...
10 Ways to Connect With Your Child
Being deeply connected to our children is the key to emotional health, cooperation, influence, and peaceful homes, but staying connected in the hustle and bustle of daily life can be challenging. We have to be intentional about our relationships with them now if want these relationships to flourish for years to come. Here are 10 ways to connect with...
How to Create a Peaceful Home
I truly believe that peace on earth starts at home, and that's why my website and my books have one focus, to promote peace in families. Peace must begin inward ; we must first find peace in ourselves. We can then extend that peace to our partners and children, onward to other family members and our communities, and peace will then have a ripple effect...
Ways to Give JOY on Your Child's Birthday
Love-bombing my children on their birthdays has become a favorite family tradition. My husband remembers with fondness how each year when he was growing up, the birthday child would wake up to getting his or her nose buttered by the rest of the family. I remember the joy of feeling celebrated when my parents smothered the house in balloons and decorations....
Gifts to Inspire and Encourage! Holiday Gift Guide #3 from CreativeChild
It's time for holiday shopping, and these gift guides from CreativeChild Magazine offer up the perfect gift ideas to encourage and inspire your little one!Here are some of my favorites from issue #3! has 3 mazes in 1! This can be used standing, sitting, alone, or with friends. Promotes balance!Meet NEA, CAZI, SAM and LACI. These are each blessed with...
Connection-Based Discipline
In my previous article, , I discussed the separate roles of the upstairs and downstairs brain. We know now that children learn best when they feel calm and connected. We understand that upset, out of control children have little to no access to the part of their brain that houses logic, reasoning, and sequential thought. They simply cannot “think about...
Why Connection is the Parenting Key
To understand why connection is the parenting key, we must first understand a bit about the brain. For a simple explanation, let's talk in terms of the downstairs brain and the upstairs brain. The downstairs brain, fully functioning at birth, is the primitive part of the brain. This controls the body's vital functions such as breathing, temperature,...
Holiday Gift Guide #2 from CreativeChild!
CreativeChild has done it again! The gift guide for the book lover and the CD, DVD, and film fanatics is here (and the future robotics engineer!), chock full of educational gifts for the wee ones on your holiday lists.Here are a few of my favorites from the guide:Can you believe the cuteness of this ? Perfect gift for the child with an unusual...
Quarter of a Million Fans Celebration!
People!We are nearly a quarter of a million parents strong! That is truly amazing, and to show my gratitude, I'm giving away a LOT of stuff! Stay tuned to d, because when we reach the 250,000 likes milestone, there will be a blitz of giveaways on the !Here's what I'm giving away:1 copy of from Hands Free Mama is the digital society’s answer to finding...
How (not) to praise your gifted child
I recall a debate years ago with an old friend who was in awe of a talented athlete. "He has so much natural talent - he's amazing!" My response was: "So what?" I tried to explain that you are born with talent, just like the color of your eyes, and it has nothing to do with your initiative or character. It's only what you do with your life that counts.Of...
Give the Gift of Gentle Parenting and the Gift of Life
Many of you have asked about donating to help positive parenting author and speaker, L.R.Knost, in her battle against a rare neuroendocrine cancer (you can read her story , and most of you probably know by now about her reluctance to ask her readers to participate in any kind of a fundraiser to help with her medical expenses. But now her passion for...
Making the Decision to Homeschool
Are you thinking about homeschooling your child? If so, I know that making the decision to homeschool can feel overwhelming and even alarming. I asked a group of homeschooling parents what they, in hindsight, would have liked to know when making this decision, and now I'm going to share with you what we all wish we'd have known from the beginning.The...
Holiday Gift Guide #1 from CreativeChild
'Tis the season! This gift guide is the first of 6 helpful guides coming your way thanks to .Not your typical gift guide filled with Elmo and Barbie, this features unique gifts that educate and inspire! For example, how awesome is this ? Children and parents love this innovative and educational play surface that suctions in the middle of...