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JANUARYGet Ready for School Teach your child positive ways to disagree. Talk to your child about how to cooperate with others and ways to express anger, frustration, or a different opinion without hitting, biting, or other unacceptable behaviors. Teach your child to say “please” and” thank you” by using these words yourself. Praise your child for using them. Activities Make “Feelings Puppets” to help your child talk about emotions. Have your child draw or glue pictures of faces on paper plates to express happy, sad, angry, and surprised. Tell a short story and ask your child to hold up the puppet that shows how the people in the story might feel. Then let your child tell the story and you hold up the puppets. Ask your child, “What makes you happy?” “What makes you angry?” Write their responses in the blanks and sing the “Feelings Song” to the tune of “Are You Sleeping?” Sing the song several times by including other feelings: grumpy (see me pout), silly (see me wiggle), sad (see me cry).
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Skills to Practice this Month
Suggested ReadingBooks for Children Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods that Make My Day Things that Make You Feel Good/Things that Make You Feel Bad Books for Parents and Caregivers Bringing Up a Moral Child: A New Approach for Teaching Your Child to Be Kind, Just, and Responsible |
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