Time management worksheets to discuss and agree on set times for phone or video games usage
Schedule screen time and learn to live with devices because they are here to stay
Awareness of life skills using examples and scenarios to help children understand the teachable moments of losing a job and real life consequences such as not having money to pay for next month’s phone service…
Safety – How to have conversations with your child regularly about “stranger danger” on devices video games, and other social media apps
2. Managing Anxiety and Positive Coping Skills
Statistics on our kids’ % of anxiety coming out of Covid
% of kids with social anxiety at schools and getting jobs will help. Practice in small groups – dinner topics to grow kid’s social skills
Retrain your brain – build skills and healthy thinking/guidance to help kids build self-esteem
Handouts – positive coping vs. negative unhealthy coping skills, model healthy choices for kids
Communicate with praise vs. criticism handouts/slides that depict reality
Work as a team player – get along with peers/problem solve, manage emotions about others/everyone is not your best friend/be realistic, learn to coexist – such as on sports teams
Social skills games for dinner
Adults are the bosses – learn to respect their job and role and work alongside them Know their role is to guide you and your job is to learn and grow (same as at home)
How will school skills help with your future job skills? Role-play conversations with your kids
4. Co-parenting through Divorce
Understand your child’s losses and stress and state empathy (Spare legacy of negativity in child’s future – multi-generational transmission process)
Keep life as routine as possible. Kids thrive from predictable schedules and feel safe
Work with the other parent. Different rules at different homes can work as long as they are in the best interest of the child
Communication/schedule coordination via text and email/reduce confusion with other divorce issues
Avoid putting child in the middle. Kids need to focus on school, development, peers, coping with stress (as modeled by parents)
Find respectful words to explain what didn’t work and why parents grew apart (modeling mature treatment of family)
5. Suicide
How to identify the warning signs
Work on a supportive plan
Teach and model positive coping skills
Decrease isolation and recklessness
Create a warm, fun, and friendly family environment
