Turn taking, naming feelings, cooperating and waiting.
Asking about another person's experience, and then hearing the same interest returned, is how conversation stops being a series of announcements. Children who…
10 minChoosing a gift for someone else requires modelling what they want rather than what you want, which is perspective-taking in its most concrete form. Seeing the…
12 minLosing well is learned, not innate, and it is learned by watching an adult lose out loud. Naming disappointment and continuing anyway models the whole sequence:…
15 minChildren often experience feelings as a single on-or-off state, which is why small setbacks can produce enormous reactions. A visible scale introduces the idea…
10 minRehearsing a conflict through toys removes the pressure of being the one who has to give in, so a child can think about the problem instead of defending their…
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