Avocado

Avocados are exceptionally nutritious fruits and are a concentrated source of healthy fats and fiber, plus a number of different vitamins and minerals that can help your child grow healthy!

Incorporating them in your child’s meals at an early age is important. Follow the link below to read more about the amazing benefits and nutritional value of avocados and find 15 amazing child-proof recipes

Learn more benefits of incorporating delicious avocados into your meals:

Avocado For children: Nutritional Value, Benefits, And 15 Easy Recipes.

How to choose ripe avocados at the supermarket (Video).

Fun project to do with your child: How to grow an avocado tree from a seed. (Video)

Praise vs Encouragement

This month we are talking about the difference between Praise vs Empowering through Encouragement.

Recognizing the difference and intentionally choosing your words when recognizing your child’s good deed or achievements will help empower your child.

We recommend using Encouragement as often as possible as research reveals the immense benefits. 

What are some of the differences?

Praise: 

Focuses on Quality of Performance

Stimulates Competition

Creates discouragement when things aren’t going perfectly

Encouragement:

Focuses on amount of effort put forth and joy of the experience 

Stimulates cooperation and contribution.

Creates a willingness to try

To make your own encouragement phrases you can follow this 5 simple steps.

1. Set realistic expectations.
2. Ask your child instead of telling them.
3. Recognize effort and improvement.
4. Focus on strengths and assets vs mistakes
5. Do not judge. Value the child as is.

Click here to download our top 5 Encouragement Phrases to say instead of “Things to say instead of Good Job“.

Did you know? Bullying is defined as a repetitive aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. Bullying affects all school aged children, and the effects of bullying may continue into adulthood. Only in our Country, About 20% of students ages 12-18 experienced bullying.

It is time we ask ourselves how can we stop this for our future generations.?

WellKind School is taking a Pro-active approach towards preventing bullying and this is how:

Early childhood often marks the first opportunity for young children to interact with each other. Between the ages of 3 and 5, children are learning how to get along with each other, cooperate, take turns, and understand their feelings.

Young children may be aggressive and act out when they are angry or don’t get what they want, but this is not bullying.

The WellKind way to help children:

Overcoming bullying through Kindness!

Focus on Mental Fitness. 

Parents need a good place to start, so we went ahead and did a little research for you and found this helpful app called “The Happy Child”.

Within this app, you can find a series of short video workshops that will help you understand the way that family relationships work and how you can actively work in making connections better.

We hope you embark on this adventure of Emotional Growth and Relationships with us! 

Click the image to download the app.