Sometimes it Gets Loud in my Toes
Helping Students Find Their Voice
This story is meant to support the cultivation of assertiveness in children via play. Especially for children who may need accommodations at school, they can learn to feel safe asserting their needs by making it fun.
Last week at school, my five-year-old daughter yelled at her friend, “BE QUIET. YOU’RE TOO LOUD!”
My daughter was the one yelling. Does this ever happen in your home? Someone screaming for quiet? Ironic, isn’t it? Her teacher, who told me about it at the end of the day, was baffled.
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Listening with Understanding and Empathy
Moving Forward in our Schools and Classrooms
Sonali Vongchusiri is a parent coach, founder of Forward Together Parenting and the “Raising Your Strong-Willed Child”” series. She often says that she was that kid and now she has three of those kids. She supports parents in shifting from “parenting perfectly” to “parenting with personality”. Parents can step off the emotional roller- coaster with their child, simplify parenting and stabilize their relationship with their child by uncovering and meeting both their child’s core needs and their own.
She can be contacted at: hello@raisingyourstrongwilledchild.com
