Helping children deal with big feelings and using permissions. Feelings Faces board and activity, Affirmations and Pink Permissions for caregivers with kids ages 3-6.
What is the difference between Time Out and Time In discipline? About discipline and teaching, reasons for misbehavior, keeping caregivers’ anger in check in times of stress and overview of how to implement Time-In.
Activity-values and attitudes evaluation about drug use, “Keyed Up” game for drug and violence prevention and information on parenting drug free children.
Affirmation theory, practical affirmation application and usage, affirmation usage with children with disabilities, and post-holiday perspective for overcoming life in the “Doldrums” season.
Information, tools and resources about preventing Child abuse.
What do you think of when you hear the word “Christmas”? Anxiety? Depression? Joy? Excitement? This issue contains a game called “Remembering Christmas” as a way to help you celebrate Christmases of past and present and also help you heal sad memories that may surround the Christmas holiday.
Ideas to be a better father and dad. Explaining the different “jobs of a father”, and different types of fathering (Admiral Dad, Nice Dad, Hardworking, Malboro Dad, Sad/Mad Dad etc) and “Father Faces Board” game.
Guided Imagery on grief, info about grief curriculum development and unique tools for grief support for boys.
Moving, new friends, neighborhood.
Keys to drug abuse prevention.
How to put family stuff aside before teaching and leading. Love affirmation usage.
Creating family rules and structure.
Stress management, words to help children with stress, response to stress grid, calming sequence steps, “the Juggler” stress exercise, reducing stress at home.
Supporting children through the topic of war. This discusses the Gulf War but contains relevant content to apply for any war or world wide conflict. Developmental reactions to war.
One year old development. Children age 6 to 18 months of age. Activity suggestions for siblings and family members to do with age 6 – 18 month old siblings.
Six kinds of person-to-person messages, the concept of motivation, positive and negative messages in an organization. Creating positive culture.
What to do when a child wines. Dealing with a whiny, clingy, child. Providing nurture and structure. When parents have unfinished developmental tasks.
Affirmation activities for each stage. Introduction to the affirmations. Overview of Growing Up Again.
The Five Dot activity builds strength in your group and each individual. It is based on the idea that people who develop a wide variety of talents are more competent individuals compared to those who become an expert in only one or two areas. Groups are stronger when each person is not limited into one role.
Dependance, independence, interdependence in a group. How to minimize gossip.
How to respond to feeling discounted. Am I getting my needs met in the group?
Everything you need to know about starting a group. Why people stay or leave a group. How do I get what I need?
Why groups need a task- Practicing new skills, new learnings or play
Encouraging responsibility, chores, Household jobs participation chart, effective goal setting.
Creating curiosity, flexibility, willingness to experiment, parenting, what to do when someone is “stuck”.
Dealing with destructive messages, characteristics of constructive criticism, kernel of truth.
Surviving the holidays with family, how to make a good opening, suggestion circle.
The “right to pass” when in a group, learning styles, ways to lead a good meeting, activity on “fussing” (The Fuss Box).
Winning, identifying ‘wins’, how to plan a workshop.
5 Levels of Power (activity), power nametag, power of suggestion circle.
How to build successful families, how to build successful groups, facilitation skills, the power of hearing, seeing and doing in communication.
Leadership responsibilities, children’s groups, affirmations, affirmation activities
Generational Affirmation Game (auditory, visual and kinesthetic), Intergenerational silhouettes.
Affirmations for family members, birth order theory, opening and closing activities that are positive, and meeting check-list.
Brain Stroming session tool, strength building exercise, 3 ways of hearing affirmations, adult information processing, and ending a group (closure activity).
4 ways teens separate from their families, WE care ground rules, suggestion circle.
3 P’s of leadership (Protection, Permission, Potency), Winner List activity, and 3 P’s assessment tool.
Ground rules for support groups, Hangzou People’s Republic of China, and ways to celebrate.
Support groups for daycare providers. Task time vs. clock time, and more!
Does Language Really Matter? What should a leader do when the group is in a spirited conversation?
Identify your outlook on life and reframe life to celebrate.
Research about affirmations and the history of how they came to be.
Information about the book Time In: When Time Out Doesn’t Work
All about the book Self Esteem: A Family Affair
Information about Transactional Analysis theory which says that from the beginning of a person’s life she does what is necessary to survive. Social transactions between a child and those around her impact the psychological of herself and others and she responds as a result.
The Theory of Recyling proposes that the emotional and intellectual developmental tasks of childhood are basic to human life at every age. Therefore, the same tasks will be addressed again and again if there is a need for them to be updated to meet life’s new demands. In this issue we learn all about the THEORY of RECYCLING. If we missed something in our younger years, we can find ways to claim and “recycle” those skills during later years.
All about the book Growing Up Again
Do you notice one child who seems…”bossy”? The child who seems to dictate play for the rest. Learn and observe how children develop leadership skills and how to help direct the “spirited” child for leadership.
Helping children with big feelings.
About grief and loss. Six major tasks of a children’s mourning. Support Group benefits for children.
Paper people by Carole Gesme, feelings, goodie note examples, lunch notes, self-esteem building.
Why have ground rules? Families ARE a type of group and can use ground rules too.
Becoming, being, infant activities, the use of important infant tape, affirmations.
The Love Game, from shame into celebration, celebration cards, the importance of play, love affirmations, and affirmations in general.
What is a trance? Use of guided imagery.
Gossip and research. Information on dating, growing up and “what I wish my parents had told me to look for in a mate”.
What is frame of reference? Ways of separating.
Discounting- the process of denying. Ridicule and sarcasm: how it hurts. How to stop discounting and move to empowerment. Using laughter, and Gallows smile.
Tantrums, two-year-olds, anger management in adults (and kids).
About love affirmations.
What are affirmations? Affirmations and Self-Esteem, exploring love affirmations, affirmations for kids.
All about feelings. How to nurture while you are leading a group.
Nurture continuum, nurture, parenting highway, suggestion circle, leading children’s groups.
Importance of negative feedback, structure activity, structure continuum exercise (for use with children, adolescents, teens or adults), how to lead suggestion circle.
Affirmations, affirmation activities.
Positive and negative communication. Appreciation. Children’s civil rights. 3 Balloon sheet: ways to give positive and negative communication
How to introduce something new. Creating a parenting contract (thumb sucking, cello practice contract), leader’s contract with a group, introducing something new.
How to enhance a ritual. What is a ritual? Ritual for leaving (idea).
All about suggestion circles: How to run a suggestion circle. Suggestion circle vs. brainstorming; suggestion circle vs. discussion. Leadership checklist for how to run a suggestion circle.
Rules within the home, hitting, things to do instead of hitting.
The 3 Ps of Leadership (Protection, Potency, Permission). Leadership Assessment tool, cooperation doll activity, “Ask one question” leader help.
Finding your own affirmation, how to ask for help as a group leader, remembering play, parenting children.
All about the planning wheel.
Change Chain, 11 ways people ask to change, change assessment tool, Qualities of good closing activity.
Networking, listening, business skills.