November-Teaching Selp-Help Skills at Home

-
Teaching Self-help Skills at Home

Taking Care of Self: Use a checklist to help your children know how to get ready in the morning
Checklist to include: brushing teeth, getting dressed, making bed, getting backpack ready and eating breakfast


Personal Safety: Make sure children know what items are safe for them to interact with in the house- appliances/outlets/stairs
Go over emergency/exit plans
Have the conversation of who is okay for your children to greet/talk to- who is a stranger and who is not?

Caring for others: Introduce helping around the house
Cleaning up after themselves
Being nice/thoughtful to neighbors
Taking care of pets in the house



Some extra resources to consider with the Holidays coming up!

Comments

  1. unknownNovember 2, 2018 at 2:15 PM

    This will be so beneficial for my family when we go out of town this holiday season!!!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Creating the perfect environment to improve behavior

-
Image
Welcome to another school year!  Each month we will post a new topic on our blog. At open house we handed out PBS Parent Packets.  Some of you might be thinking, what is PBS?  PBS is short for Positive Behavior Support.  We have been implementing PBS in our building for 10 school years.  PBS is a proactive approach to systematically teaching and responding to behavior in a positive and consistent way and providing support and interventions as needed.  This is a 3 tiered model.  This year for our blog topics, we are going to dive into Tier 1- our universals and give you tips on how you can incorporate some of this at home.  The first tip of the year is the quote (there is a visual below): “The goal of Positive Behavior Support is not “perfect children”. Rather the goal should be creating the perfect environment for enhancing their growth.”- Randy Sprick. For example, in a classroom setting if there is a book shelf right next to the circle time rug and students are pulling books off the
Read more

February- Stress Management

-
Stress Management Stress is a normal reaction to challenges and changes and an inevitable part of all of our lives – even our kids! Some stress can be a good thing, but overwhelming stress can be damaging to your health and have negative effects on parenting skills. It’s good to have some tricks up your sleeve for trying times! https://adrenalfatiguesolution.com/parenting-stress/ http://www.parenting-ed.org/handouts/stress_management.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJiUUbxyZ78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJiUUbxyZ78 FUN FACT: Parents who are more sensitive to their infants’ needs and respond quickly to emotional cues tend to raise children who are better at regulating their own emotions. Successfully managing your own stress is vital to being responsive to your children! DID YOU KNOW? There are free programs available for parents that provide counseling, resource linkage and hands on training to help ensure healthy children and healthy families. For m
Read more