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10 Best Restorative Mental Health Day Activities for Kids

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:27:49 +0000

Adults aren’t the only ones who need an occasional mental health day. The build-up of academic, social, and activity stressors can be overwhelming for kids if they aren’t balanced out by periods of recharging. Read on to discover 10 mental health activities for kids from a mental health professional that will help to restore and...

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10 Anxiety Symptoms in Children that Most Parents Miss

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:52:00 +0000

Anxiety symptoms in children can start showing at an early age. Sometimes they are more obvious, and other times they might be more subtle or show in surprising ways. Here are 10 examples of anxiety symptoms in kids that you may not easily spot. “My kid might have anxiety???” This is the response 90% of...

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75 Awesome Calm Down Strategies for Kids (that they’ll want to try!)

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:34:00 +0000

75 Science-backed calm down strategies for kids that are easy, engaging, and will help your child develop strong emotional regulation skills. Read on and then grab your free printable of 75 calming techniques to have on hand when your child’s anger or anxiety takes over. ⭐️Free 9-page Expert Master guide⭐️>> 5 Secrets to MORE cooperation...

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Parenting an Angry Child? 10 Underlying Reasons you Shouldn’t Ignore

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:35:00 +0000

If you’re raising an angry child, learning the underlying causes of your child’s anger is the first step in anger management for kids. Although it’s not always possible to perfectly decode every angry outburst, there are several common reasons why a child may struggle to manage their irritability and frustrations. Anger and irritability in kids...

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7 Surefire Signs Your Child Needs a Mental Health Day

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:26:10 +0000

Inside: Just like adults, kids need mental health days to keep their stress levels under control and maintain good emotional health, here are 7 signs your child may need one. “I’m not going to school, today mom!”. Every once and a while my fourth-grader drops this line on me in the midst of the eating...

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10 Simple Calming Outdoor Activities for your Irritable Toddler

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:19:21 +0000

Inside: Discover 10 easy fun and calming outdoor activities for toddlers when they’re tired, stressed, and overwhelmed. Over the past year and a half, children have been forced to spend more time indoors than ever before, and this has had tremendous effects on their ability to regulate their emotional responses to both their own stress...

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The Single Most Helpful Trick for Dealing with a Child’s Emotional Outburst

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:10:49 +0000

Inside: Learn the first and most important step for responding to a child’s emotional outburst and a step by step guide to implement. Between my friends, clients in my therapy practice, and the Parents with Confidence Facebook community, I’ve seen a strong reoccurring theme these last few weeks with kids. There’s a good chance you’ve...

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How to Protect Your Child From Stress + Anxiety in a Stressful Modern World

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:39:57 +0000

Inside: Learn 11 Ways to Protect your Child’s Mental Health in our busy world and why your child’s emotional health matters just as much as academics. Simply put, our brains were not designed to navigate the stress and anxiety offered up by today’s modern world. This applies twofold for our children whose brains are still...

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What to do When Your Angry Child Refuses Coping Strategies

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 03:37:15 +0000

Inside: Learn how to proceed when your angry child refuses coping strategies. “What do I do when my child refuses the coping strategies I offer?” It’s a question I get regularly when I talk to parents in my therapy practice about anger management for kids and how to best support their child in the midst of...

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7 Types of Play that Skyrocket a Child’s Social and Emotional Development

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:26:41 +0000

Inside: These 8 types of play are essential for the development of every child and contribute to a child’s emotional health in many important ways. How seriously do you take your child’s playtime? If we’re being honest, I think for most of us the answer would be not very. Not realizing the huge role play...

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The 50 Most Epic Anger Management Tools for Kids

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:42:46 +0000

Inside: Learn how to help your child control their anger with the 50 Best Anger Management Tools for Kids from a Child Therapist. I’m unloading the dishwasher listening to my four and seven-year-olds playing in the next room. I smile as I hear my creative little beings choreographing another dance ‘recital’ in the living room....

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7 Simple but Powerful Anger Management Activities for Kids

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Fri, 31 May 2019 00:42:05 +0000

As a child therapist, I’ve compiled 7 quick and easy anger management activities for kids you can do with no preparation, that help build healthy coping skills. Unmanaged anger holds the potential to derail a day, a week or a life. Giving our child a kick start to an emotionally healthy and grounded future means...

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Anger Management for Kids: A Therapist’s No-Fail Guide to Calm

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:43:13 +0000

Inside: Discover research-backed tips and strategies on anger management for kids from a child and family therapist. My 4-year-old comes downstairs and asks for candy at 6:30 am and collapses on the floor sobbing when the answer is no. My 7-year-old feels left out of her sister and brother’s game and lashes out calling them both stupid....

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How to Help a Child Deal with Anger Now and Throughout Life

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Wed, 15 May 2019 16:02:27 +0000

Inside: Learn essential strategies for helping a child deal with anger and why research shows them to be effective throughout life, from a child therapist. A few times a month my 4-year-old plods down the stairs in his pull-up promptly inquiring “can I please have a piece of my candy for breakfast?” Really? You don’t...

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The Best Tools for Mindfulness with Children that Promote Focus and Calm

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:20:00 +0000

Inside: A child therapists top used tools for mindfulness with children that will help your child with focus, anxiety and emotional regulation. The benefits of mindfulness with kids are many (increased focus, self-control, better mood, better sleep, lower anxiety, etc etc to the MOON) but parents often wonder, how the heck do you actually do mindfulness with...

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Mindfulness with Kids: 8 Life-Changing Benefits for Brain and Behavior

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:36:09 +0000

Inside: Learn 8 reasons why everyone should be practicing mindfulness with kids and what amazing benefits will occur from better behavior to improved emotional well-being. I was already sold on the magic of mindfulness with kids. I’ve been a mental health practitioner for 15 years now and have steadily seen and heard more and more...

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Lower a Child’s Anxiety with These 8 Research Backed Tips

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:45:56 +0000

Inside: Learn powerful researched-based everyday habits and strategies that will help to lower a child’s anxiety and stress. As a child and family therapist, I hear the following statements often. “My daughter seems to have separation anxiety still even though she’s 6 now, and won’t even let me leave the room in our own house...

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10 Best Articles of the Year for Supporting a Child’s Emotional Well-Being

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:31:14 +0000

Inside: Here are the top 10 most talked-about articles on Parents with Confidence that will help you raise a child with emotional well-being. With every year comes more public awareness that how we interact with our child each day as parents, has the potential to steer them toward a future of emotional well-being. What exactly...

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5 Positive Parenting Techniques that Will Never Fail to Make you a Better Parent

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:50:19 +0000

Inside: Experts share their top positive parenting techniques for raising emotionally healthy and well-adjusted children. Parenting often feels like a fifty-sided Rubik’s cube, deceivingly simple before you really get into it, but seemingly impossible to figure out when you’re in the thick of things. Instead of contending with brightly colored toys, parents find themselves sorting...

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100 Everyday Ways to Strengthen Your Child’s Mental Health

Angela Pruess LMFT, Child Therapist + Parent Coach — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:35:06 +0000

Inside: Every day is an opportunity for parents and caregivers to provide the best gift possible, a strong foundation for a child’s mental health. If you had only one wish for your child’s future what would it be? Many of us would say “I want my child to be happy”, but what does that really...

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