Jason McCoy
Difficult Conversations: What To Do If You ...
Difficult Conversations: What To Do If You Don't Know What To Do!
Jason McCoy
Difficult Conversations: Should I Help My ...
Difficult Conversations: Should I Help My Child or Let Them Figure It Out?
Jason McCoy
Difficult Conversations: Going to the Dentist, ...

Today we’ll take a look at some of the real anxiety producing experiences kids face. Sometimes it’s hard for adults to relate to why these would be scary…like getting a haircut, for example. When anyone faces the unknown, their brain doesn’t like it and will quickly attempt to fill in those blanks from their catalog of experiences.

Difficult Conversations: Going to the Dentist, Doctor, New School, etc...
Jason McCoy
How Do You Charge Your Batteries?

Sometimes I wish I had an indicator I could see that would give me a warning when I need to pause and recharge. As a parent, caregiver, teacher or whatever your role is with kids it can be easy to get burned out. I’d like to show you a tool I use for myself and the families I work with to help monitor this and to figure out what needs to happen to get back on track and those batteries fully charged again.

How Do You Charge Your Batteries?
Jason McCoy
Intensity Is The Enemy

Have you ever been called in to your boss’s office? What about the principals office, when you were a kid? Or how about someone you care about saying the dreaded words “we need to talk”?

How does that feel? How much are you able to listen?

This is how your kids feel when you try to parent or discipline using intensity.

Intensity Is The Enemy

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What Does Angry and Aggressive Play Mean?

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I spend a lot of days getting put in jail, pretending to negotiate standoffs, battling monsters and villains. This is all part of kids processing feelings and experiences of anger, revenge, powerlessness (or figuring out how to be powerful). Does aggressive play mean kids will become more aggressive? How can you tell if it’s going too far? Should you let them do it?

Here’s my latest video helping to unpack what kinds of things happen in kids’ play.

Photo by Lavi Perchik on Unsplash