Posts tagged learning
Got Stress? Your Kids Do. And It Is Keeping Them From Performing at Optimal Levels
Got Stress? Your Kids Do. And It Is Keeping Them From Performing at Optimal Levels

The levels of stress our kids are feeling today is part of the reason levels of anxiety and depression are sky rocketing. But parents can help kids choose healthy stress and assure they have enough downtime to push the reset button, so they can perform optimally.

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Growth Mindset, Independence, Letting go, Parent as teacher, Parenting, Setting limits, TrustElisabeth Stittmanaging homework, motivation, stress, learning, sleep, growth mindset, long viewComment
Should You Pay Your Kids for Good Grades?
Should You Pay Your Kids for Good Grades?

Recently in my Middle School Moms Group on Facebook a lively conversation about whether we should pay kids for grades came up. What do you think? Here I share comments of parents in the group and then provide my own views on this issues.

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Communication, Growth Mindset, Independence, Letting go, Parent as teacher, ParentingElisabeth StittJoyful Parenting Coachinggrades, homework, learning, teaching, parenting, tweens, teens, #joyfulparentingComment
What Would You Do If Your Child Were Caught Shoplifting?
What Would You Do If Your Child Were Caught Shoplifting?

This blog is in response to a letter a mom sent me about her son:

Dear Elisabeth,

I am so angry and mortified.  My 10-year-old got caught shop lifting, and I am afraid this is a sign of much worse things to come.  

Upset and Worried in Tulsa

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Build Connections, Communication, Community, Effective Consequences, Kindness, Parent as teacher, Parenting, TrustElisabeth Stittshoplifting, discipline, consequences, apologizing, making ammends, making choices, learningComment
CONSISTENCY 101
CONSISTENCY 101

With New Year’s here, I imagine that you are setting resolutions around your parenting.  Among your resolutions, perhaps you have a goal of being more consistent.    Great.  I’d like to help with that.  However, becoming a consistent parent is almost impossible if you leave to will power alone.  It is much easier if you build for success step by step.  I have a plan for doing exactly that.

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Consistency, Parent as teacher, Parenting, parentingElisabeth Stittconsistency, rules, discipline, trust, learning, children, parenting