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Children, Family, Food, Halloween, Healthy Living, National Days, Parenting Tips, Ultimate Blog Challenge
Tips for Halloween Night 2020
Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the links below are affiliate links meaning that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you purchase something using the link. Read the full disclaimer policy here. One of the best things about Halloween each year is the trick-or-treating. In our family, my husband or I (usually him) would take our kids out each year. However, when my son decided he was too old for costumes, he committed to taking his younger sister out each year. It wasn’t all altruism, though. He got a LOT of candy from people who were proud of him…
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Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is something many people struggle with, but it is especially challenging for kids. As a child or pre-teen, there are many pressures in your everyday life to fit in and just be accepted. And struggling with the disruption to their schedules right now can only make self-esteem issues worse! Working on your confidence as a child is crucial because it will play a role in their lives as they get older. If you have children, you will want to improve their self-esteem as much as possible, which can be done with these easy tips. Give Compliments and Praise Don’t underestimate how powerful a compliment or praise can be, especially…
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Children, Exercise, Family, Healthy Living, Journaling, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Parenting Tips, self-care
How to Create Self-Care for Kids
Self-care has been a trending topic for a few years now, but most of the focus is on adults. For good reason, since as a parent, you probably get very little time to yourself. But what about kids? They also have stressful, challenging young lives, and need a little self-care focus as well. And now, with the changes in everyone’s situations and the HUGE changes in their school attendance — no school, hybrid school, or face-to-face with social distancing — this is an additional stressor for our kids. What can we do to help? Help them start a self-care routine for themselves. Self-care is not just for adults anymore! Limit…
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How Kids and Teens Can Start Journaling
Once you understand the benefits of journaling for kids and teens, it is time to figure out how to actually introduce it and add it to their routine. Luckily, this is the easy part! Here are some simple ways to get your kids and teens to start writing in a journal. Get Them Supplies They LOVE to Use To start with – the supplies you get for journaling is an important decision to make! Try to involve them in buying the journal, writing utensils, and other supplies. The supplies are probably going to be a little different depending on the age of your kids. For the younger kids, lots of…
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4 Reasons that Journaling is Good for Teens
Last week, I posted about Journaling for Kids. This week, we will look at journaling for teens. There are many ways journaling can help someone, from finding clarity to expressing your emotions, but there are some unique advantages for pre-teens and teenagers. Here are some of the top benefits for teens who start using a journal on a daily basis. It Improves Their Self-Esteem and Confidence If there is one thing that most teens universally struggle with, it is their self-esteem. This sometimes start when they are younger, but typically starts around ages 12 or 13. Through journaling, they discover so much about themselves, including what might be causing the…
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Four Benefits of Journaling for Kids
With all the changes in your child’s life — everything is just weird — it might be a great time to start him or her out with a journal. If you thought journaling is only something teens and adults could do, you’re in for a big surprise! While it might look a little different for kids, they can benefit a lot by writing in a journal. Here are some of those benefits. A Safe Place for Expression Journaling provides a safe, private, non-judgmental space for kids to write about anything they want. This includes what they are thinking or feeling. It is important that — as a parent– you allow…
