Consistency to Increase Learning

Consistency in Parenting

to Increase Learning!

 

Welcome to the different skill notebook podcast! Today we have a special guest Samantha Salver, LCSW. Samantha is one of the Social Mind Center fabulous team members she leads social groups, provides individual counseling, organized thinking coaching (executive function), and independent living coaching. 

Our smart conversation today is on the importance of consistency in creating a fruitful social-emotional learning environment in your home.

Consistency provides security, safety, and impacts how you connect with your child. 

In this episode we discuss 3 strategies to increase consistency in your home:

1. Create routines

2. Schedule and plan

3. Identify and share expectations for your children as well as consequences for poor choices.

Build on these strategies: 

1. Incrementally implementing routines around your family's identity and needs. 

2. Schedule and planning to provide structure and encourage self-regulation to increase productivity and independence.

3. Detail and outline behavioral expectations:

• set boundaries for building healthy relationships
• consequences for unexpected behaviors
• consistently manage your reactions to unexpected behavior as your modeling behavior
• explain the why for the poor choices and what alternative choices could be made in the future for similar situations
  • example: "Your friend asked you to play, and you did your own thing instead, they felt ignored when you were playing, that was unexpected, it hurt your friend's feelings. What could do next time?.."

We also discussed the importance of learning to edit expectations and manage hectic schedules. Simplifying schedules and commitments to leave room for play and rest. If you are a working parent you need to learn to say no to additional commitments because parenting is hard work and can be exhausting.

Visit our parent equipping section at www.socialmindcenter.com/parent-equipping.