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Important conversations with kids, Mental health, NBC Parent Toolkit, Parent Resolutions, Parent School Year Resolutions, Race, Racism, Sex Talk, Tough Talks
Not exact matches
«It's
important that we have authentic
conversations with our
kids about what it means to achieve and about why achievement is
important,» Weissbourd says.
Communicating
with your child or teen can be challenging and yet, there are so many
important conversations you need to have
with your
kids throughout their lives.
It is very
important to start the
conversation about underage drinking
with your
kids early on.
Since a
conversation with your elementary aged child will be different from the one you have
with a teen, it's best to take a look at my post,
Important Conversations to Have
with Kids About Managing their Digital Reputations, an age appropriate guide to discussing digital reputations at each age and stage.
Most
kids always find it difficult to open up to people about things that are bothering them hence to make them open up, it is
important to make a habit of having daily
conversations with your
kid.
«Be aware, a lot of the content on
kids» TV shows is pretty mature, so «noticing and wondering» what the selfies are about can open the
conversation to bigger and more
important issues they might be wrestling
with.»
«[According to a survey by Playtex Sport], about 75 percent of teenage girls actually stop sports or stop exercising because of their period, so I think it's really
important to start that
conversation with kids,
with teenagers,
with women, so we can encourage the younger generation to not let your period get in your way.»
It's particularly
important that parents have regular, ongoing
conversations with their
kids, asserts Pasnick.
I think I finally broke that circle
with him, taking the attention «from the food» to the
kids) but I think that could be the reason his brother JP who eats everything that gets to his hands since a baby is trying to get my attention but I don't know what else to say or do to prevent those things to happen because he starts sitting
with his feet on the table, eats
with his hands, I've tried asking him to behave or leave upstairs, tried to make mealtime fun, I've tried ignoring the bad behavior and focusing on the
conversation, what has worked because he finishes and ask for permission to leave, the mayor problem that I see is that he is not getting the message that i am trying to send that he is as
important as his brother not only during mealtime, and his little sister follows him a lot so now she is standing up and fooling around during lunch just like his brother, sometimes they end up playing running around the table!!!! And I can't ignore, and LM is looking at me like saying «are you going to do something mom??»