Instilling Perspective Taking in Your Children

Instilling Perspective Taking in Your Children

Perspective taking is the ability to understand another person’s thoughts, feelings, wants and needs. It helps us to step into another person’s shoes, feel what they are feeling and understand point of view. Mastering the skill of perspective taking is the key to...
Creating a Family Moral Identity

Creating a Family Moral Identity

Moral identity can inspire empathy, activate compassion and motivate caring behavior. Having a family moral identity gives children a framework that will shape their own behaviors and thought patterns about who they are and what they believe. Every parent and...
Developing Your Child’s Moral Identity

Developing Your Child’s Moral Identity

If your child can think of themselves as a caring and compassionate person, they are more likely to act in a caring and compassion manner. If they can imagine themselves as responsible for helping others, they are more likely to develop a positive moral identity. A...
When Your Child is Involved in Bullying

When Your Child is Involved in Bullying

So, you’ve been doing everything you can to protect your kid from bullying.  You stay connected with them and you have their computer passwords (just in case). You ‘ve been talking to them about being cyber safe and sane and maintaining their online reputation....
Policy, Procedures and Programs That Help Prevent Bullying

Policy, Procedures and Programs That Help Prevent Bullying

Last week, we talked about what to look for in the policy, procedures and programs at your child’s school.  Along with bully prevention policies and procedures, you should also check to make sure that the programs are working toward making positive changes in the...
How Schools Can Protect Our Kids from Bullying

How Schools Can Protect Our Kids from Bullying

We’ve been talking about how parents can help kids to develop proactive social skills and positive character traits that will help protect them from being involved in bullying…or at the very least, stand up to bullying should they ever be confronted. We know that a...
Bully Profiles-Part Three- The Not-So-Innocent Bystander

Bully Profiles-Part Three- The Not-So-Innocent Bystander

The not-so-innocent bystanders are the ones who give the child who is bullying the ability to do what they do without getting caught. They do this in a number of ways.  One kind of bystander will stand idly by and do nothing to stop the bullying behavior. They...
Bully Profiles-Part Two-The Target

Bully Profiles-Part Two-The Target

In order to sharpen their bullying “skills”, children need to seek out and find other kids who are easy targets for bullying.  This week, we’ll be talking about the child who gets bullied…who they are, how they respond and the impact of bullying on their lives....