Brain Building Blogs
Gratitude’s Impact on Health
Much of our time and energy is spent pursuing things we currently don’t have. Gratitude reverses our priorities to help us appreciate the people and things that we do have.
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.
Benefits of Community Involvement
Have you felt isolated from your community over the past 18 months? Read this week’s Blog Post to learn some of the benefits of community connectedness and how our free Family Outdoor play events will help facilitate connections this summer.
Connectedness During COVID-19
Social connectedness has been and continues to be a key factor in promoting positive mental health and well-being. By promoting quality interactions with our children they will continue to feel valued, loved, and cared for and the connection will continue to grow.
How to Build a Strong Brain
The construction of a house always begins with the laying of a foundation. The same is true when building a strong brain.
Emotional Literacy
Is it true that happy people live longer? Read about emotional literacy and learn how it impacts our mental wellbeing and physical health.
Why Play Outside?!
Children’s time outside is diminishing as our society moves towards a more sedentary lifestyle. Take a look at six great reason to get outside and play.
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.
Serve and Return
Serve and return is a very easy concept to keep in the back of our minds as we engage with children and infants throughout our lifetimes.
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.
Benefits of Block Play
Did you know six standard LEGO bricks can be combined in more than 915 million ways? Find out more about the benefits of block play.
Why Build Executive Functions?
Executive function skill level has been found to predict school success, benefit behavioural control, overall health, and enable individuals to make greater contributions to the work force.
What’s Missing?
What’s Missing helps children build working memory, language skills, and ability to think flexibly.
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.
Importance of Positive Experiences
Children’s early experiences – the bonds they form with their parents and their first experiences – deeply affect their future physical, cognitive, emotional and social development.
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?
Building Core Capabilities
Research shows that there is a set of underlying core capabilities that adults use in order to work and parent effectively.
Importance of Nurturing Relationships
Parents can sometimes underestimate their role in their child’s life, believing that children are only educated at school. It’s important for all parents to realize that they posses the key for healthy brain development.
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.