Confident Kids: Becoming an Active Role Model for Your Kids (How to Create a Confident Kid in an Era of Bullying and Emotional Stress) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781774857069)

You'll find powerful mindfulness practices for minimizing your own stress response when hard emotions emerge. You'll also discover strategies for developing polite dialogue, effective conflict resolution, and attentive listening. In the process, you'll learn to examine your own unproductive behaviors and entrenched reactions that replicate the generational patterns set by your parents, so you may break the cycle and respond to your children in more competent ways.

In brain stages, you'll discover:

• How brains develop and what you can do to help your child succeed
• The best form of praise that builds confidence and self-esteem
• Surefire ways to help a struggling child get caught up in math or reading
• How to get your gifted child's needs met
• Ideas for helping an anxious child relax for better learning
• Tips for teaching kids the art of building healthy relationships
• Over 150 fun games and activities to engage and nurture young minds

It's very common for parents to feel confused when it comes to expressing strong emotions. But did you know there are plenty of ways in which you can express all that you are feeling without being hurtful to your child? Yes, and you are going to learn those important tactics inside this book. This book will provide you with proven methods to understand your child through both verbal and non-verbal cues and then respond in a meaningful way.