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8 Tips for Delivering Trauma-Informed Feedback to Your Child

Health & Medical, Parenting / By

Children who have experienced trauma often react to both positive and negative feedback a bit differently than other children. Brookes Publishing discusses some ideas for teacher-student interactions on how to give both positive and corrective feedback. These ideas can also translate to how you respond in the home. For positive feedback, make it: Low-key and private. Use nonverbal …

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Fine Motor Skills Part Two: What’s Involved?

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Since we learned about the importance of fine motor skills (that it affects learning skills having to do with hygiene, academic performance, how they relate to peers, and more) in another blog post, let’s look at what other types of development are involved in fine motor development, including mid-line crossing, ocular motor control, and hand-eye coordination. Read …

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Managing My Mom Guilt

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My two-year-old son is crawling in my lap and my three-year-old daughter is at pre-school. Frozen 2 is on the TV because it’s my son’s favorite movie and his older sister rarely lets him watch it, because siblings. This is relatively straightforward, but in one sentence I can point out several things that hit that …

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What’s So Important About Developing Fine Motor Skills Anyway?

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You may have heard your neighbor talk about how a certain toy is helping Sally develop her fine motor skills and wondered “What does that really mean?” or “What’s the big deal with fine motor skills?” The reality is that the beginnings of fine motor skills lay the foundation for necessary everyday abilities later on. …

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Networking in Parenting

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Dixie Sevison has been working with students her whole career. Currently, her focus is on all female students at Brigham Young University as the director of Women’s Services & Resources. I got a chance to sit down with her and talk about the resources available to young mothers, some of whom might still be in …

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