Activities and Videos to Teach Kids About Self-Control and Impulse Control
Impulse control is such an important self-management topic social skill to teach children. Many kids need practice with these life...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 31, 2022
- 4 min
Activities for Teaching Children to Be Kind, Caring, and to Include Others
Are you looking for simple activities to reinforce kindness in your classroom? Here are 9 simple and fun activities to teach kids how to...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 21, 2022
- 8 min
Activities and Videos to Teach Kids About Kindness, Caring, and Inclusion
Are you looking for activities, and video clips to teach kids about kindness, caring, friendship, and inclusion? I've gathered these...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 14, 2022
- 14 min
Using Books to Teach Kids About Kindness
Children absorb the world around them like a sponge, whether positive or negative. They quickly learn acceptable and unacceptable...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Apr 16, 2022
- 9 min
Activities for Teaching Kids Good Sportsmanship, Teamwork, and Cooperation Skills
What do you see when you watch your student, son, or daughter play a board game with their friends? Do you see someone who knows the...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Mar 25, 2022
- 8 min
Using Books and Videos to Teach Kids Good Sportsmanship, Teamwork, and Cooperation Skills
Are you looking for books and video clips to teach kids about how to be a good sport, winning and losing graciously, playing fairly,...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Mar 1, 2022
- 7 min
Anxiety Triggers: Coping Without Avoidance
Children (like the rest of us) may have certain anxiety triggers that set off their big or uncomfortable feelings. These triggering...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Feb 1, 2022
- 10 min
16 Fun Movement Activities for Counseling and Classrooms
In 1961, President Kennedy said school children needed physical activity to thrive (JFK Library, as cited in New York Times, 2017) and in...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Jan 16, 2022
- 7 min
Coping Skills Craft Activities
There are so many developmental and emotional benefits of doing craft projects with kids — especially coping skills craft activities!...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Nov 25, 2021
- 7 min
CBT with Children: Helping Kids Change Unhelpful Thoughts with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective psychological treatments when it comes to addressing a variety of...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Oct 31, 2021
- 8 min
DIY Holiday Gift Giving for Educators and Counselors Plus Social-Emotional Learning Toys
During the past couple of years, educators have proven their resilience, flexibility, and that they are nothing but hardworking. Plans...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Oct 15, 2021
- 10 min
How to Help Kids with Self-Control and Executive Functioning Skills
What is Executive Functioning (EF) and how does it impact so many skills? I have always been fascinated by the work of occupational...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Sep 24, 2021
- 8 min
How to Explain Alzheimer's Disease to Children
I am so pleased to share this guest blog post from Laurie Zelinger, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S, author of the Please Explain to Me book series....
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Whole Child Counseling
- Sep 19, 2021
- 6 min
Top 3 Favorite Grief and Loss Books
Grief is a topic I've written about here a lot because it has impacted my life so much. And since I've read SO MANY books on grief, today...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Sep 3, 2021
- 7 min
How to Teach Self-Awareness Skills to Children
At the beginning of the school year, I always start off the year with self-awareness activities, which is one of CASEL's social-emotional...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Aug 21, 2021
- 6 min
7 Tips for Getting a School Counseling Job
People often ask me about job application tips and interview tips for how to land a career as a school counselor, school social worker,...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Aug 9, 2021
- 12 min
Practical Tips and Books for Helping Children Cope with Anxiety
Time and time again I have found that kids really benefit from using bibliotherapy techniques. Bibliotherapy is the strategy of using...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Jul 24, 2021
- 12 min
Everything You Need to Know About Tension, Stress, and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®)
I recently went through a medical event that was traumatizing. In some ways, the experience reminded me of having anaphylactic shock,...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Jul 13, 2021
- 14 min
Helping Children Sleep Well and Cope with Nightmares
So often, when children start kindergarten, by mid-afternoon, many of them look EXHAUSTED. It’s a long day to learn to adapt to! And if...
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Whole Child Counseling
- Jun 27, 2021
- 6 min
SMART Social-Emotional Counseling IEP and Treatment Goals and Objectives
Let’s discuss S.M.A.R.T. social-emotional and counseling IEP goals and treatment plan objectives. These goals can be hard to write since...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 24, 2021
- 7 min
Anxiety in Children: Symptoms, Signs, and How to Help
As educators and mental health practitioners, it is important to understand the symptoms of anxiety in children. According to the CDC...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 17, 2021
- 7 min
Helping Children Cope with Anticipatory Grief
I keep circling back to grief and loss because my world has been rocked by my losses. I think of death and loss every day. Not in a...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 4, 2021
- 8 min
Kid's Nutrition Tips from Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Shawna Hughes
I have multiple food intolerances and as an adult I developed anaphylactic food allergies. One of the reasons I studied to become an RN...
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Whole Child Counseling
- May 1, 2021
- 7 min
How to Create a Grief Box or Comfort Kit for Kids & a Building Block Grief Intervention
Building Block Grief Counseling Intervention Gen Judayna, LCSW was kind enough to share this awesome activity with our readers! She also...
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