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Latest from the Blog!
Desire and Determination: Complementary Forces
Dr. Joanne Foster explores the synergy between desire and determination in achieving success. She offers practical strategies for overcoming life’s challenges and emphasizes the importance of effort, commitment, and self-confidence in reaching personal and professional goals
Mess for Success
Dr. Joanne Foster discusses embracing ‘sloppy success,’ highlighting its value in fostering resilience and creativity. She contrasts structured approaches with the benefits of dealing with unexpected challenges, both in adult business contexts and children’s learning environments.
Helping Children Overcome Difficulty
Dr. Joanne Foster’s article on helping children overcome difficulty emphasizes the importance of understanding and responding to children’s emotions. She provides fifteen personalized strategies for parents to support their children during challenging times, focusing on reassurance, creative outlets, and coping strategies.
What to Do When Kids Are Upset?
This article provides strategies for parents to support children’s well-being when they’re upset, including giving them time to decompress, engaging in effective communication, and changing focus to nurture positivity and resilience.
Children and Choice
Dr. Joanne Foster emphasizes why making choices is empowering, and she discusses what to reinforce. She guides parents in supporting their children, and provides several tips relating to fueling curiosity, discovering strengths, decision-making, ramping up the fun, and more.
Encouraging Children’s Learning: 7 Important Tips for Parents
Dr. Joanne Foster’s article offers seven vital tips for parents to encourage children’s learning, covering aspects like ensuring children feel important, spending time outdoors, self-care, consistency, pacing, and promoting fun and creativity.