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    Built with Kit
    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: 


    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:


    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:


    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:


    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:


    using videos to teach social skills

    Social Skills Activities to Help Kids See How Their Behavior Impacts Others

    Social Skills Activities to Help Kids See How Their Behavior Impacts Others

    As your daughter gets off the bus, you notice her flushed face and her eyes are filled with tears. You ask what’s wrong, and the words come flooding out. “Julia said she won’t play with me at recess anymore. I don’t understand why she’s mad. I was just telling her the right way to play!”

    Teaching Personal Space using videos

    Teaching Personal Space using videos

    I've written before about how you can use videos to teach social skills to kids (check out this blog post for more information about using videos in general). One of my favorite lessons to teach using videos is about personal space. I loved showing the two videos below because of the laughter and conversations that happened when we watched something a little silly together. Here’s what you can do if you want to use videos to start a discussion with your kids about personal space:

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