Ideas for time together, talking and listening, helping your child with feelings, and staying involved in learning and school. See every topic on the Resources page.
Anthony Yeo, the late “Father” of family counseling in Singapore, once deposited a timeless nugget of wisdom in my life some eon back. He said kids don’t really understand “quality” time. Just time. How wise! We delude ourselves into thinking that we can “schedule” quality time with our kids don’t we? That special moment when our kid
In psychological terms, to “reframe” something is to look at it from a different perspective. Reframing is a way to turn what might be viewed as a negative scenario into a positive one. A very good example is the half-filled glass analogy. You can look at the glass and say “it is half-empty” or “it
One of the best ways to connect with another person is by injecting a positive presupposition into a question or suggestion. This communication tool makes a conversation much more likely for your child to respond in a way that opens the way into understanding how your child thinks. To have a positive presupposition about something
Child psychologists since Jean Piaget had demonstrated that babies as young as six-week old have the capability of deferred imitation – the mental capacity to store, remember actions or objects, and later, just simply by thinking, are able imitate or act on this knowledge. By the age of 14 months, the length of time that children are
Father: “All I ever want is for my teen to be happy. Why is it so difficult?” Teen: “I want to quit school coz I am not interested in it?” Father: “No. You must go to school coz you will then get good grades and have a good job and be happy.” Teen: “No I
