Brain Building Blogs
Managing Big Feelings
When it comes to big emotions, teaching children a range of strong coping skills can help them with their overall wellbeing, increase their resilience, and help them deal with challenging life circumstances in healthy ways both now and in the future.
The Resilience Scale
Resilience is defined by the interrelationship between our genes and life experiences. A lot can be done by parents, caregivers, teachers, and coaches, to positively influence and strengthen a child’s resiliency so that they are better equipped for success throughout their lifetime.
Transgenerational Epigenetics
Experiences gone through by both a mother and father even before pregnancy, might also be playing a role in that child’s future development.
Play Summit 2021
Building Brains Together’s Dr. Robbin Gibb is the keynote speaker at this year’s PLAY SUMMIT. Join us at PLAY SUMMIT 2021 to learn from community organizations and researchers about why play holds so much value in healthy child development and how play creates resilient adults.
Understanding Stress
When stress is temporary and buffered by supportive relationships, it can be helpful, build resilience, and increase performance.
COVID-19 Parent Stress & Resilience Survey
The Covid-19 Parent Stress and Resilience Survey was assembled to learn about the experiences of parents and families in the Lethbridge area as they respond to the ongoing realities of Covid-19.
Protective Factors
We all want our families and children to have what they need to thrive. How can we take advantage of our unique strengths as a parent and ensure we have the skills and supports we need so our child – and our family as a whole – is safe, secure and happy?
Developing Resilience in Children
There are a number of findings about resilience that are important to remember as we seek to tip the scale in a more positive direction.
Parent Isolation Survey Results
We are excited to release the data we collected from over 450 parents regarding the effects of COVID-19 on their families.
Playing at Home During COVID 19
During times of crisis, children benefit from play as a means to explore their emotions as well as to make sense of and cope with environmental anxiety.
Understanding Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences
Each child comes with a variety of experiences that can affect their learning and social capacities.