Course Tag: toddler

Little Kids, Big Emotions: Help Young Children Thrive

The emotions center of your young child’s brain is developing faster than the thinking part of their brain. That is why they sometimes get swamped with emotions and have unreasonable meltdowns. Your young child needs your calm energy to help their overwhelmed brain calm down. You have probably already noticed that timeouts, threats and punishments really don’t help and actually often make things worse. So how do we help young children manage their emotions and their behavior? This series of classes will help you:

• Recognize the importance of developing practices to calm your brain when your child is upset
• Apply effective strategies to reduce and respond to tantrums and help your child manage their emotions
• Create routines and apply positive discipline approaches that support cooperation in young children

Is your preschool or school age child keeping you up at night?
Does your child’s bedtime routine take hours?
Does your child make lots of extra requests after lights out?

If so, you are invited to the Become Your Child’s Sleep Coach workshop. You will learn how to help your child fall asleep independently at bedtime with a gentle and gradual approach that will help your child learn to fall asleep quickly and easily at bedtime (and stay in his or her own bed all night!) You will also learn how to manage those “call backs and curtain calls” that most children love to make after lights out!

Is your preschool or school age child keeping you up at night?
Does your child’s bedtime routine take hours?
Does your child make lots of extra requests after lights out?

You will learn a gentle and gradual approach to help your child learn to fall asleep quickly, easily and independently at bedtime (and stay in his or her own bed all night!) You will also learn how to manage those “call backs and curtain calls” that most children love to make after lights out!

This workshop features Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg, author of “Become Your Child’s Sleep Coach: The Bedtime Doctor’s 5-Step Guide, Ages 3-10.” We encourage you to read this book before the workshop, though it is not required. Dr. Schneeberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Sleep Center. This is your chance to ask all those sleep questions that have been on your mind.

Routines are powerful tools. They bring you and your young child closer and reduce power struggles. Routines help little ones predict what comes next, trust that you will meet their needs, and feel more confident. Transitions between activities can be challenging and routines ease those difficulties and help children learn. Routines also decrease behavior corrections and increase cooperation in your child.

Parents who participate in “Routines that Work with Little Ones” Library will be able to:

• Apply effective strategies to help your young child cooperate with daily activities like getting dressed or eating meals
• Create routines that are enjoyable, include key child learning principles  

• Recognize the role parents play in carrying out routines that work
• Address ‘hot spots’ that frustrate parents, like transitions between activities, and get in the way of parents attending to their responsibilities.