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November 1, 2024

Calm & Connected Podcast, Families

Janine Halloran

The Importance of Independent Play with Lenore ...

How do you encourage your kids to be more independent? When do you as a parent step back to give them the space to step up?

Lenore Skenazy joins Janine today to discuss some of these questions. They discuss:

September 6, 2024

Calm & Connected Podcast, Families

Janine Halloran

Building Friendships and Social Skills with ...

Friendships are such a wonderful and special part of life. From memory making to going through the highs and lows with your peers makes life so much richer. As a child, learning social skills and how friendships fit is a huge learning curve as they go through their childhood and find their ‘people’. As a parent, how do you connect and how do you teach your kids basic social skills and about what a great friendship can be?

Today Janine is joined by Caroline Maguire and in this episode they discuss:

May 10, 2024

Calm & Connected Podcast, Families

Janine Halloran

Practicing SEL through Play: An Interview with ...

How do we teach our children social and emotional awareness in a fun and play filled way? Eventually our children will become adults so when they walk out into the world, we want them to step into their lives as aware and in control of their emotions as possible.

In this episode we discuss:

April 12, 2024

Calm & Connected Podcast, Families

Janine Halloran

Helping Kids with Friendships and Social ...

Have you noticed social skills missing in your kids? Caroline Maguire, author of Why Will No One Play With Me?, joins me to discuss how to support your child and build them up through play.

Here’s some of the areas we cover:

February 16, 2024

Calm & Connected Podcast, Families

Janine Halloran

A Conversation about School Readiness with ...

The transition to preschool to elementary school can be such an anxious time for both parents and for the children. There’s a lot of unknowns to get them ready for and sometimes we think there’s lots we have to do to prepare them for starting. Today we discuss what you can do to help reduce anxiety for your little one with nursery practitioner, Caroline Allen.

In this episode they discuss:

hidden rules

Janine Halloran

November 8, 2018

Social Skills

Secret Messages

Janine Halloran

November 8, 2018

Social Skills

Inside: A fun arts and crafts activity to do with a social skills group. This is a great way to start a discussion hidden social rules.

Doing arts and crafts with social skills groups is awesome because it's fun but it’s also a playful way to teach. This lesson is all about about picking up on clues. This activity allows kids to write a secret message and reveal it.

Janine Halloran

August 5, 2016

Social Skills

10 Engaging and Fun Social Skills Group Activities for Kids

Janine Halloran

August 5, 2016

Social Skills

Inside: 10 fun and enjoyable social skills group activities designed to help kids learn through play. Perfect for social skills group centers or for groups at school.

What kid has ever wanted to attend a social skills group? I’ve never heard a kid say “Yes, please sign me up for a group where you point out how awkward I am and then make me talk about it.”