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How to Help Your Kids Be a Little More Patient

Children struggle with waiting due to developing brains, difficulty understanding time, and a strong need for connection. Patience requires self-control, which improves with age. Parents can help by offering distractions, clear explanations, and praise for waiting. Over time, patience builds emotional regulation, problem-solving, and social skills.
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Helping Kids Learn to Take Turns and Practice Waiting

Teaching children to take turns builds patience, empathy, and communication skills. By learning to wait and share, children develop problem-solving abilities and emotional regulation. Encouraging flexible thinking, using turn-taking language, and finding ways to play together help children navigate situations where waiting becomes a positive, collaborative experience.
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Time to Rhyme: Fun Ways to Set Your Child Up for Reading Success

Singing nursery rhymes and reading rhyming books help children develop language and reading skills by building phonemic awareness. Rhymes make it easier for kids to recognize sound patterns, aiding in their early reading. Activities like clapping along with songs and engaging in playful word games strengthen their language development and creativity.
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How to Practice Phonics With Kids at Home

Phonics helps children connect sounds to letters, a key skill for learning to read. By practicing letter recognition, sound games, and rhyming, children build phonics skills. Parents can support this by reading aloud, talking frequently, and using everyday print to reinforce phonics. Consistent practice develops reading fluency and confidence.
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Lessons in Giving

Teaching children to be charitable fosters empathy, responsibility, and empowerment. By involving them in charitable activities from a young age, parents help kids understand the importance of helping others. As children grow, their involvement evolves, and they begin to actively seek ways to address injustices, incorporating generosity as a core value.
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6 Ways to Teach Kids to Be Kind

Kindness is rooted in empathy, compassion, and consideration for others. It can be nurtured in children through modeling kind behavior, encouraging thoughtful actions, and fostering empathy. By creating habits like sharing and comforting, children learn that kindness benefits everyone, both in everyday interactions and in long-term emotional development.
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What you can do to support your child’s early learning journey!

Quick prompts for Learning

Take turns naming one kind thing you did for someone today or something kind someone did for you.

Ask, “How can we make someone smile or feel happy today?”

When waiting for something, ask, “What can we do to keep busy while we wait?”

Let’s make a rhyme about your name! (For example, “Brooke likes to read a book about how to cook.”

Ask, “Can you find something in the room that rhymes with [pick a word!]?"

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