Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids

Course No. 9531

As a parent, you can’t shield your children from all emotional and social challenges, but you can equip them with the skills to navigate these hurdles. Dr. Kennedy-Moore provides practical advice and actionable plans to foster emotional and social intelligence in children. With 12 lectures, you’ll gain insights into managing emotions, building self-esteem, teaching empathy, and guiding social interactions in the digital age.

Video Lesson List

1. Developing Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

Learn how parents can help or hinder children’s emotional regulation skills. Discover techniques for teaching kids to cope with their feelings during meltdowns and on an everyday basis.

34 min

2. Anxiety-The Way Out Is Through

Understand when anxiety becomes a problem for children and learn practical ways to help them cope with the thoughts and behaviors that trigger anxiety.

31 min

3. How Kids Manage Anger-Positive Discipline

Explore constructive responses to children’s anger and learn strategies to inspire cooperation and avoid power struggles.

30 min

4. Building Authentic Self-Esteem

Discover how to support authentic self-esteem at different stages of development and examine the core components of self-esteem.

33 min

5. Teaching Kids to Care-The Roots of Empathy

Investigate the three key ingredients of empathy and learn ways to support your child’s development of empathy.

31 min

6. What Makes Kids Happy?

Learn strategies to guide children in building a life that incorporates pleasure, engagement, and meaning, including teaching them to relish positive experiences.

33 min

7. How Children Make Friends

Track the changes in children’s friendships and understand the key ingredients of friendship formation.

30 min

8. Playing Well with Others

Explore stages of play and learn about the importance of pretend play, games with rules, and handling winning and losing.

28 min

9. Making Up and Breaking Up with Friends

Understand why children argue, how they resolve differences, and ways to support your child through conflicts or breakups.

28 min

10. Belonging, Status, Popularity, and Rejection

Study social status categories like well liked, controversial, neglected, and rejected, and the hidden risks of popularity.

29 min

11. Teasing and Bullying

Learn about the long-term effects of bullying and practical strategies to address it whether your child is the target or the bully.

28 min

12. Growing up Social in the Digital Age

Discover the parallels between online and face-to-face behaviors and learn how to educate children about safe and kind digital interactions.

32 min