Posts tagged communication skills
How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Porn?
How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Porn?

The idea of talking to your kids about porn may make you want to hide your head, but who better than you to do it? Recently I had the pleasure of hearing sex educator Amy Lang give a webinar on how to talk to your boys about porn. I felt like what she has to say is so critically important that I wanted to pass on to you the key ideas I got from her talk. (And while it was directed towards parents of boys, everything Amy said sounded like I could have easily used it with my daughter, too.)

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Build Connections, Communication, Confidence, Parent as teacher, Parenting, TrustElisabeth StittJoyful Parenting Coachingcommunication skills, sex education, pornography, porn, kids and pornComment
How to Bring Out the Best in Your Kids
How to Bring Out the Best in Your Kids

Parents often worry that their kids aren’t motivated to do anything beyond play video games or post on social media. The truth of the matter is is that there is a lot in kids’ daily lives that works to squash personal motivation. Here are some tips parents can use to rekindle their child’s natural eagerness to interact with the world and to take pride in what they do.

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Build Connections, Communication, Community, Confidence, Effective Consequences, Independence, Parent as teacher, Parenting, Setting limits, TrustElisabeth Stittmotivation, communication skills, chores, respect, making choices, autonomy, independence, discipline, limitsComment
How Do You Teach Your Kids Emotional Intelligence?
How Do You Teach Your Kids Emotional Intelligence?

You've Got the ABC's Covered and the 123's Down.  But Increasingly, research shows the importance of Emotional Intelligence--and you are the person best suited to teaching it.  

Emotional intelligence is being able to recognize a wide range of nuanced emotions, and recognizing them, being able to regulate them and put them in perspective in a way that helps the individual move through life more easily.  

In my long experience in working with children, emotional intelligence can absolutely be developed.  The most important way in which it is developed is through interactions with thoughtful adults who are modeling and guiding kids in dealing with their feelings.

This blog shares some common behaviors of parents whose kids display emotional intelligence.

AND IF YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT HOW TO BOOST YOUR OWN EQ, CHECK OUT THIS BLOG ON "How can we use NLP to build Emotional Intelligence?"

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Build Connections, Communication, Community, Kindness, Parent as teacher, Parenting, TrustElisabeth Stittemotions, empathy, emotional intelligence, communicaiton, communication skills, listenting, acknowledging, bondingComment
I Just Want My Husband and Me to Be on the Same Page
I Just Want My Husband and Me to Be on the Same Page

“I adore my husband, but I hate parenting with him. I feel like I can handle the kids alone, but he comes in and mixes it all up."  Seriously, when parents contact me, conflict with one's spouse about how he or she parents is always some part of what is keeping their household from being as fully calm and harmonious as they want it to be.  That means that one of my biggest roles as a parenting coach is to help parents get on the same page.  Here are the 4 steps I teach to becoming a united parenting team.  

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Elisabeth StittCouples communication, parenting styles, United parenting, values, active listening, authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting, trust, communication skills