While generally experienced by infants or toddlers, separation anxiety will undoubtedly hit us all as our close-knit COVID families and...
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Is Scaffolding Parenting the Key to Adjusting to Post-Pandemic Life?
Scaffolding parenting includes three pillars: support, structure, and encouragement. In scaffold parenting lies the metaphor that the child is a...
6 Reasons Why Teaching Bike Riding to Kids is Important
Teaching bike riding to kids is a rite of passage for both parent and child. Bike riding is an important...
Picky Eaters or Normal Eaters – Family Mealtime is a time for joy!
Picky eaters and normal eaters each deserve the experience of happy mealtimes. Helping families have joyful and responsive mealtimes with...
Creativity Inspires Confidence, Communication, and Problem-Solving
Creativity inspires communication. By removing the rules and regulations so often placed upon children, art and creative expression go where...
Movement and Coordination Impacts Self-Esteem
Movement and coordination are not typically the first things parents think of when their child is suffering from low self-esteem....
2020 – A Year of Growth, Challenges, and Victories
Reflecting on 2020, we will remember it as a year of curveballs, ups and downs, and ultimately one of profound...
5 Ways Childhood Anxiety Shows Up as Something Else
Childhood Anxiety has Many Disguises Childhood anxiety often masks itself within other emotions. Especially during times of stress or tension,...
The Benefits of Play Pods and Small Groups for Preschoolers & Kids
The benefits of play pods and small groups for preschoolers and kids include improving a child’s chance of success in school...
Pandemic Parenting – the Struggle is Real but there is Help!
Pandemic Parenting Pandemic parenting is resulting in parental burnout at alarming rates. Balancing the safety of your family, working from...
What is DIR Floortime and How Does it Help?
“What is DIR Floortime?” is often one of the first questions new families at Amy Zier and Associates ask when...