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Getting Someone’s Attention

As a parent, teacher or early childhood professional, have you ever had one of these experiences? You are having a conversation (with another adult) and your child starts talking to you, interrupting your conversation, or perhaps yells your name from …
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Creating Personal Stories

Personal stories can be a helpful tool to build resilience and self-regulation skills.  With the help from an adult, children review these stories ahead of time to prepare them for new events, changes to their usual routine or to help …
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Building Self-Esteem in School-Age Children

Self-esteem is defined as feelings of self-worth, self-confidence and self-respect. Children with low self-esteem often can feel powerless, lonely, resentful, defensive and easily frustrated. These feelings can lead to aggressive, teasing and bullying behaviour. Children with high self-esteem are proud …
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Teaching Your Child About Emotions

Identifying, understanding and responding to the emotions of others are very important social skills for all of us to have. These skills help us to understand and develop relationships with other people. When we know that someone we care about …
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Everyday Opportunities to Develop Communication Skills

Like many things in life, communication is a two-way street. It is an active partnership between people that involves more than words. We communicate with each other using speech, gestures, touch, and facial expressions. Children with special needs may communicate …
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Emotion Matching Game

Some children need to be taught to look at faces to get social information. A matching game using human faces expressing different emotions can help encourage your child to look at faces more closely. Print and cut out the emotion …
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Building Social Skills

As adults, we sometimes confuse social skills with manners. While knowing to say “please” and “thank you” is certainly helpful, it does not guarantee a child will be included in play. Social skills include skills such as sharing, taking turns, …
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Asking a Friend to Play

Joining a group of children in a game or asking a friend to play can be very challenging for some children. Playing and interacting with others is an important social skill that children need to learn. As a parent, teacher, …
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