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Deborah Song

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Articles by Deborah Song

Why Constructive Criticism May Benefit Children More than Praise

Why Constructive Criticism May Benefit Children More than Praise

A Better Year May Be Ahead. But the Best Time to Pursue Happiness is Now.

A Better Year May Be Ahead. But the Best Time to Pursue Happiness is Now.

How to Raise a Secure Child During Times of Uncertainty

How to Raise a Secure Child During Times of Uncertainty

How to Improve Your Child’s Focus Amidst the Clutter of Coronvirus

How to Improve Your Child’s Focus Amidst the Clutter of Coronvirus

How to Prepare for a Pandemic School Year

How to Prepare for a Pandemic School Year

Quality Time May Trump Quantity Time, but Quantity Time Begets Quality Time

Quality Time May Trump Quantity Time, but Quantity Time Begets Quality Time

Stay Sane and Create Much-Needed Boundaries with Your Child

Stay Sane and Create Much-Needed Boundaries with Your Child

We Can Raise Happier Kids. They Just Need to Stop Thinking About Themselves.

We Can Raise Happier Kids. They Just Need to Stop Thinking About Themselves.

Kids Value Achievement Above Kindness Because We Do. And it’s Counter-Productive.

Kids Value Achievement Above Kindness Because We Do. And it’s Counter-Productive.

Help Your Child Value Diversity and Celebrate the New Year through a Different Culture

Help Your Child Value Diversity and Celebrate the New Year through a Different Culture

Why Goals Help Kids Create a Life they Love

Why Goals Help Kids Create a Life they Love

Teach the Gift of Tidying Up this Holiday Season

Teach the Gift of Tidying Up this Holiday Season

Are You Spending Enough Time With Your Child? Research Seems to Suggest It’s Time to Stop Feeling Guilty.

Are You Spending Enough Time With Your Child? Research Seems to Suggest It’s Time to Stop Feeling Guilty.

Teaching Gratitude Can Change a Child’s Life. Here are 10 Reasons Why.

Teaching Gratitude Can Change a Child’s Life. Here are 10 Reasons Why.

10 Fun Fall Activities for the Family

10 Fun Fall Activities for the Family

Screen-Time Limiting Tips for Better Health

Screen-Time Limiting Tips for Better Health

The Importance of Balancing Extracurricular Activities Between Sports and the Arts

The Importance of Balancing Extracurricular Activities Between Sports and the Arts

This Is the Second Most Important Thing You Can Do to Ensure Your Child Grows Up Happy and Successful.

This Is the Second Most Important Thing You Can Do to Ensure Your Child Grows Up Happy and Successful.

Is Your Child Having a Hard Time Making Friends? Here are 9 Tips to Make Lonely Lunches a Thing of the Past.

Is Your Child Having a Hard Time Making Friends? Here are 9 Tips to Make Lonely Lunches a Thing of the Past.

Summertime Can Increase Anxiety in Kids

Summertime Can Increase Anxiety in Kids

10 Bucket List Items for Fourth of July

10 Bucket List Items for Fourth of July

7 Best Summer Family Vacations that Offer Something for Everyone

7 Best Summer Family Vacations that Offer Something for Everyone

Why Kids Lie and How to Encourage Your Child to Tell the Truth

Why Kids Lie and How to Encourage Your Child to Tell the Truth

6 YouTube Safeguards to Help Protect Your Child

6 YouTube Safeguards to Help Protect Your Child

Why a Family Tech Contract Will Benefit Everyone

Why a Family Tech Contract Will Benefit Everyone

Speak Your Child’s Love Language and Communicate Love More Effectively

Speak Your Child’s Love Language and Communicate Love More Effectively

Why Overpraise Sets Our Kids Up For Failure Not Success

Why Overpraise Sets Our Kids Up For Failure Not Success

10 Things Parents of Confident Children Know to be True

10 Things Parents of Confident Children Know to be True

10 Ways to Spend Quality Time With Your Kids This Holiday Season

10 Ways to Spend Quality Time With Your Kids This Holiday Season

10 Simple Ways to Teach STEM at Home

10 Simple Ways to Teach STEM at Home

Why Nice is an Overlooked Trait and How to Raise the Kind of Nice Kids that Finish First

Why Nice is an Overlooked Trait and How to Raise the Kind of Nice Kids that Finish First

The Benefits of Extracurricular Activities Can Last a Lifetime

The Benefits of Extracurricular Activities Can Last a Lifetime

The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Child is be the Person You Want Him to Be. Here’s Why.

The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Child is be the Person You Want Him to Be. Here’s Why.

5 Healthy Habits You Want to Continue in the Summer to Make School Transition a Breeze

5 Healthy Habits You Want to Continue in the Summer to Make School Transition a Breeze

How to Teach Your Child a Second Language This Summer

How to Teach Your Child a Second Language This Summer

7 Safe Sunscreens for Your Child and the Environment

7 Safe Sunscreens for Your Child and the Environment

8 Exquisite Benefits of Travel for Kids

8 Exquisite Benefits of Travel for Kids

Why Guilt Is a Necessary Emotion for Guiding Moral Behavior

Why Guilt Is a Necessary Emotion for Guiding Moral Behavior

8 Simple Explanations to Help Motivate Better Behavior

8 Simple Explanations to Help Motivate Better Behavior

5 Ways Kids Can Help Save Our Planet by Becoming Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

5 Ways Kids Can Help Save Our Planet by Becoming Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

How to Raise a Strong-Willed Child Without Breaking Her Spirit

How to Raise a Strong-Willed Child Without Breaking Her Spirit

How to Turn Your Child’s Challenges into Opportunities

How to Turn Your Child’s Challenges into Opportunities

Could Your Child’s Reading Difficulty Actually Be Dyslexia? How to Get Evaluated and Find Help

Could Your Child’s Reading Difficulty Actually Be Dyslexia? How to Get Evaluated and Find Help

How to Plan a Special Date with your Child on Valentine’s Day

How to Plan a Special Date with your Child on Valentine’s Day

How to Discipline Your Child Without Criticism

How to Discipline Your Child Without Criticism

Start the New Year by Instilling these Good Habits in Your Child

Start the New Year by Instilling these Good Habits in Your Child

5 New Year’s Resolutions That Will Give Your Child What He Needs Most

5 New Year’s Resolutions That Will Give Your Child What He Needs Most

Sugar-Free Holiday Classroom Gift Ideas That Are Sweet

Sugar-Free Holiday Classroom Gift Ideas That Are Sweet

Why Even the Best Kids Regress. Here’s How to Get Your Child Back On Track.

Why Even the Best Kids Regress. Here’s How to Get Your Child Back On Track.

Tips for Helping Your Child’s Science Project Turn Into a Success (Without Doing the Work Yourself)

Tips for Helping Your Child’s Science Project Turn Into a Success (Without Doing the Work Yourself)

10 Must-Haves for an Epic Halloween Party

10 Must-Haves for an Epic Halloween Party

10 Reasons Why Exercise Will Strengthen Your Child's Mind, Body and Soul

10 Reasons Why Exercise Will Strengthen Your Child's Mind, Body and Soul

How Holiday Baking Champion Jackson Fujimori Learned Perseverance Through Baking

How Holiday Baking Champion Jackson Fujimori Learned Perseverance Through Baking

How to Motivate Your Child to Participate in Extra-Curricular Activities

How to Motivate Your Child to Participate in Extra-Curricular Activities

7 Ways to Self-Motivate Your Child

7 Ways to Self-Motivate Your Child

What’s Behind Your Child’s Motivation? It May Be Genetics

What’s Behind Your Child’s Motivation? It May Be Genetics

10 Tips for Parents Whose Children Are Attending to New Schools

10 Tips for Parents Whose Children Are Attending to New Schools

7 Ways to Have Soaking Fun with Water (No Pool Required)

7 Ways to Have Soaking Fun with Water (No Pool Required)

10 Ways Kids Can Make Money This Summer

10 Ways Kids Can Make Money This Summer

How to Nurture Emotional IQ in Highly Sensitive Children

How to Nurture Emotional IQ in Highly Sensitive Children

Increase Vocabulary, Increase Emotional IQ

Increase Vocabulary, Increase Emotional IQ

Are Your Children Playing Enough in Preschool?

Are Your Children Playing Enough in Preschool?

8 Ways to Teach Your Child the Art of Conversation

8 Ways to Teach Your Child the Art of Conversation

5 Facts and Activities to Help Teach Your Child About the Significance of Memorial Day

5 Facts and Activities to Help Teach Your Child About the Significance of Memorial Day

How to Enjoy the Journey of Parenting

How to Enjoy the Journey of Parenting

A Fill-in-the-Blank Questionnaire Makes for a Great Mother’s Day Card Alternative

A Fill-in-the-Blank Questionnaire Makes for a Great Mother’s Day Card Alternative

5 Tips for Raising a Confident Child

5 Tips for Raising a Confident Child

When Kids Have Allergies (The things people don’t know about having a child with allergies)

When Kids Have Allergies (The things people don’t know about having a child with allergies)

What Does a Confident Kid Look Like?

What Does a Confident Kid Look Like?

Why You Shouldn’t Trap Your Kids in Busyness

Why You Shouldn’t Trap Your Kids in Busyness

Why Kids with Hobbies Thrive in School

Why Kids with Hobbies Thrive in School

Gift Trust This Valentine’s Day

Gift Trust This Valentine’s Day

How to help your Kids Chart Success for the New Year

How to help your Kids Chart Success for the New Year

Should You Give Your Child Allowance?

Should You Give Your Child Allowance?

Q&A With the Kayla Cares 4 Kids Founder, Kayla Abramowitz

Q&A With the Kayla Cares 4 Kids Founder, Kayla Abramowitz

8 Ways to Help your Child Fight Peer Pressure

8 Ways to Help your Child Fight Peer Pressure

8 Ways to Raise a Socially Conscious Child

8 Ways to Raise a Socially Conscious Child

9 Life Skills Every Child Should Learn

9 Life Skills Every Child Should Learn

The History of Trick-or-Treating

The History of Trick-or-Treating

How to Enjoy Your Child For Who She Is

How to Enjoy Your Child For Who She Is

This Study App Could Revolutionize The Way Kids Study

This Study App Could Revolutionize The Way Kids Study

Responsibilities: Why They’re Important to Your Child’s Happiness

Responsibilities: Why They’re Important to Your Child’s Happiness

How to Help Your Child Find Their Passion

How to Help Your Child Find Their Passion

10 Numbers To Inspire Grit

10 Numbers To Inspire Grit

Why grit is the most important quality for early success

Why grit is the most important quality for early success

Engineer a Gumdrop Structure

Engineer a Gumdrop Structure

The Upside of Raising a Strong-Willed Child

The Upside of Raising a Strong-Willed Child

Why Firstborns and Only Children are Perfectionists

Why Firstborns and Only Children are Perfectionists

Kids Kitchen: Mini Pot Pies

Kids Kitchen: Mini Pot Pies

Seeing the Mug Half Full

Seeing the Mug Half Full

How to Get Your Kids to Read (Without Telling Them To)

How to Get Your Kids to Read (Without Telling Them To)

Are Preschool Friendships Real?

Are Preschool Friendships Real?

10 Tips for a Smooth Road Trip with Kids

10 Tips for a Smooth Road Trip with Kids

Dealing With Loss

Dealing With Loss

Why Your Child Has the Final Say in Tantrums

Why Your Child Has the Final Say in Tantrums

Three Parenting Mistakes Sure to Ruin Your Next Family Vacation

Three Parenting Mistakes Sure to Ruin Your Next Family Vacation

Kids Kitchen: St. Patrick's Day Tostadas

Kids Kitchen: St. Patrick's Day Tostadas

How Changing My Language Changed My Child's Outlook

How Changing My Language Changed My Child's Outlook

Kids Activities: Valentine’s Day Gratitude Tree Craft

Kids Activities: Valentine’s Day Gratitude Tree Craft

Parenting: Teaching Success Through Failure

Parenting: Teaching Success Through Failure

Parenting: Is Modeling Right for Your Child? Is It Right for You?

Parenting: Is Modeling Right for Your Child? Is It Right for You?

10 Tips to Help Your Child Grieve the Loss of a Pet

10 Tips to Help Your Child Grieve the Loss of a Pet

Parenting: Ways to Give the Gift of Time this Holiday

Parenting: Ways to Give the Gift of Time this Holiday

Parenting: 10 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Thrive

Parenting: 10 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Thrive

Parenting: 10 Ways to Drop Your Preschooler Off at School in a Peaceful State of Mind

Parenting: 10 Ways to Drop Your Preschooler Off at School in a Peaceful State of Mind

Learning to Embrace my Highly Sensitive Child

Learning to Embrace my Highly Sensitive Child

Top 8 Air Travel Must-Haves

Top 8 Air Travel Must-Haves

To Redshirt or Not: 10 Things to Consider

To Redshirt or Not: 10 Things to Consider

Parenting: 8 Ways to Get Ready for Kindergarten

Parenting: 8 Ways to Get Ready for Kindergarten

Parenting: Can't Get Your Kid To Eat? Make Mealtime a Fun Activity

Parenting: Can't Get Your Kid To Eat? Make Mealtime a Fun Activity

Road Trip Rules: 10 Tips For a Smooth Ride

Road Trip Rules: 10 Tips For a Smooth Ride

Relational Bullying - How to Handle Mean Girls

Relational Bullying - How to Handle Mean Girls

Parenting: Three Simple Steps to Healthy Eating

Parenting: Three Simple Steps to Healthy Eating