Essential Need for Children to Flourish

PLAY!!!

Children need play to flourish. Unfortunately, they do not engage in unstructured, and spontaneous play time as they did before. This will help you understand the importance of it, and how to foster more play in their lives and yours.

Taking Playtime Seriously

Play reduces anxiety too...

Empowering Kids In An Anxious World

It is sometimes difficult to watch our children just play, because they occasionally choose danger. Sometimes we just have to let them take healthy risks, despite how hard it is for us parents to watch. This is a fascinating article that I post every semester.

The Overprotected Kid

Consider This:

How will you help your child play more?
How can you take time to play more yourself?

A DATE NIGHT WITH YOUR PARTNER TO Create Your Family Vision and Mission..
An unforgettable, unique, productive night out to shape your family culture, and share your dreams for your family with your partner... Creating a Family Vision and Mission Couples Workshop!
Registration here or find out more here.

New!
Now put your Family Vision and Mission into action...
PART 2: Creating a Family Plan With Rituals.
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BOOK DISCUSSION

This semester's book is Alison Gopnik's, The Gardener and the Carpenter. We will discuss Chapter 7: Growing Up, in our next class discussion.

CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT
Potluck and Costume Party!
Monday 10/29 and Wednesday 10/31. Regular discussion and observation for the Thursday class.

Nancy's Free Parenting Classes With CCSF- Join us For Spring 2023

City College of San Francisco Spring 2023 Semester -- Classes have ongoing enrollment throughout the semester until they are filled. Register online or in person. The semester begins on January 17, 2023. Learn The Developmental Stages And How To Play With Your Child Meet Other Parents Get Parenting Questions Answered Song Time Book/Article Discussions Build Community This weekly adult-education noncredit class is intended for parents to gather, learn from the material and build community with others experiencing this pandemic parenting life stage. Bring your child, and learn while playing together. This is a non-credit adult education class with no grades. Adult students must be vaccinated to participate. **City College also offers these courses taught by other instructors at the Ocean, Chinatown and John Adams Campus. See the schedule here . Nancy's Class Schedule Now Enrolling! IN-PERSON, Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street, Room 173 These classes will be limited in

Discipline Without The Drama and Recipe Sharing

Click here to find out more about Nancy's Couples Parenting Workshops: Creating a Joyful Family . No Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson is one of my favorite parenting books. Here's a wonderful summary, aka the "refrigerator" sheet taken straight out of the book. No Drama Discipline REFRIGERATOR SHEET Also included in the conclusion of the the book: 20 Discipline Mistakes Even Great Parents Make This week I've asked my classes to share their favorite easy and nutritious family meal recipe. Please take time to share your favorite recipe in the comment section. Book Discussion We will have our final discussion on the Conclusion Chapter and Further Resources this week of April 9. Here's also a nice little summary of the book written on the Fatherly Blog . Extras These two articles published in the last couple of days were interesting to me... How to Raise a Vegetable Eater How to Minimize Exposures to Hormon

Raising Grateful Children and Squashing Materialism

There is the old adage, "you can't give your child something you don't have yourself." If we want grateful children, we'll have to model gratitude first. "Gratitude is more than behavior-- it is an internal experience... of NOTICE-THINK-FEEL-DO." Let's try to be mindful of this, for the sake of our children. What Parents Need to Understand About Gratitude On the flip side of gratitude is materialism. Understanding why kids want things and what to do about it is helpful. In this season of buy-buy-buy, consider alternatives to obtaining things by focusing on what matters in life. Why Kids Want Things 6 Ways to Squash Kids' Materialism This Holiday Enjoy this winter break with your family. We'll see you in January! CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS This week of December 16 is the last week of classes, the semester ends on December 22. We will have a potluck celebration in class. Bring food and good cheer to share.

Parenting With Teacher Nancy

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