Introduction to Mindfulness with Children

As a parent, life can be stressful. Unfortunately, that stress often transfers to children. The goal of mindfulness is to live a more peaceful, meaningful, and balanced life. This course explores the need for mindfulness when caring for your child.

Mindfulness Activities for Families

This course helps you support mindfulness practices with your child and plan for them throughout the day.

An Introduction to Positive Guidance

When a child acts inappropriately, it can be hard for parents to remain calm. Positive guidance, a philosophy for guiding children′s behaviors, can be a helpful tool. This course explains how to use positive guidance techniques with your child.

Developmental Aspects of Positive Guidance

As children learn new skills, they often are faced with challenging situations. Understanding those challenges can help parents positively support children’s development. This course explores the elements of positive guidance strategies.

Positive Guidance Strategies for Success

Responding positively to challenging behaviors is vital to helping a child learn self-regulation skills. Positive guidance is a philosophy for guiding behavior, and this course provides strategies you can use when interacting with your child.

Infant & Toddler Positive Guidance

Learn why it’s important to respond to your infant or toddler’s behaviors in a positive manner. This course reviews and expands upon theories and concepts regarding human behavior and early childhood development.

Setting Limits with Infants and Toddlers

Learn actionable ways to respond to your child’s behaviors in a positive manner. This course introduces ways to set limits for your child and includes strategies for promoting self-identity, self-confidence, and self-control.

Positive Guidance Tools for Infants and Toddlers

Challenging experiences often result in challenging behaviors for children. This course offers strategies for responding to these behaviors while helping establish a positive relationship between you and your child.

Positive Guidance and Child Development

Responding to your child’s behavior in a positive way is essential for their emotional well-being. This course explores positive guidance, theories that support it, and why it’s important to use positive guidance with your preschool/school-age child.

Responding to Common Behaviors

Children often test their boundaries, and the way you respond affects their emotional well-being. This course explores positive guidance, why your child engages in challenging behaviors and strategies you can use with your child.

Positive Guidance Strategies for Children

Having a set of tools to support your child through challenging behaviors is vital for helping them develop confidence and self-regulation. This course focuses on positive guidance practices you can use with your preschool/school-age child.

Understanding Biting

The course will explore the reasons young children bite. It also provides information about how biting is associated with child development. Lastly, participants will learn appropriate strategies for handling biting situations.