About This Library
Peace At Home’s principles are built on decades of research focused on parent-child relationships and positive outcomes for kids.
Give your children and yourself the gift of Peace At Home. Start with these 4 big ideas:
- Be Your Child’s Calm Center
- Understand Yourself
- Focus on Connection and Curiosity
- Teach and Model Kindness and Compassion
Put those big ideas into action with these 5 essential strategies to help your family thrive:
- Create Rules, Routines, Rhythms and Rituals with Your Family
- Recognize the Power of Play and Playfulness
- Strengthen Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence
- Create Problem Solvers
- Signal Safety to Your Child
Read more about Peace at Home’s Parenting Principles and dive in by watching or listening to one of the Quick Video Solutions below. Click on a title to access the video and handouts (log in to access the content)
Peace At Home is possible, one step at a time. Let’s do this together. And remember progress, not perfection.
After this library, you will be able to:
- Recognize how strongly the way handle stress affects your child’s behavior
- Apply specific brain-calming strategies to stay calm and think clearly during challenging times
- Learn how to talk to kids about how their brain works and what they can do to keep it healthy
- Practice ways to calm down that you can teach to children
- Recognize the effects of your childhood on your adult thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Identify ways your childhood may be impacting your relationship(s) with your child(ren)
- Define and recognize traits of perfectionism in you and/or your child
- Build a secure attachment relationship with your child
- Create rules and routines as a family
- Use positive feedback that supports cooperation
- Make daily routines fun and recognize how playfulness (can help) helps during hard times
- Help your child understand and talk about their own feelings and the feelings of others
- Recognize symptoms of distress that you may be ignoring and would benefit from attention
- Identify and apply strategies that guide your child to become a problem solver (starting at any age)
- Identify and apply strategies that help both adults and children feel safer even in difficult (circumstances) times