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How Parents Can Help Kids Overcome Five Common Friendship Hurdles
You can’t choose your children’s friends, but here’s how you can help them manage five frustrating friendship pitfalls. Read more >>
5 Ways to Help a Child With Autism Learn Social Skills
Of course no parent likes to watch a child struggle in any scenario. For parents of children with autism, that struggle often takes place in social situations — in a classroom, on a playground or during a simple conversation. Read more >>
Autism Resources from Sesame Workshop [web resource]
Explore Sesame Workshop’s free, bilingual resources to help support the autistic children in your life. Read more >>
Nine Tips for Talking With Kids About Trauma
As much as we might want to, we can’t always protect children from witnessing violence and tragedy in the world, whether it’s mass shootings, terrorist attacks, or war. As parents, teachers, and other supportive adults, what we can do is Read more >>
Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
We think we have to push our kids to do more, achieve more, be more. But we’re modeling the wrong traits—like rule-following and caution—and research shows it’s not working. This kind of “Striver” mindset isn’t just making kids unhappier, says Read more >>
Gentle parenting is about recognizing your child as an individual and responding to their needs. The tools of gentle parenting are connection, communication, and consistency. Read more >>
In our interactions with our children, each of us has the choice to respond in ways that either strengthen or weaken our relationships with them. Read more >>
Parenting With Empathy [downloadable]
Want to parent with more empathy but can’t think of what to say? Here are some no-fail sentences to get you started in any situation. Read more >>
9 Tools for Helping Your Child Manage Anxiety
Many tools can help your children work through anxiety. These are strategies licensed mental health clinicians use with people in therapy, and research has found these strategies to be beneficial in treating and managing anxiety. Read more >>
It’s Never Too Early to Talk With Children About Race
Infants as young as six months old can recognize differences in skin color. By age two and a half, research has shown, children prefer playmates who are similar in race and gender. And as early as age three, they are Read more >>
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650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
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2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
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650.702.2487
