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Emotional Intelligence
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Addressing lying in older children
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Pretend your son and his friend are playing basketball in the driveway. When his friend hits at long range and proceeds to celebrate, your son gets angry and hurls the ball at him. When you intervene he insists he didn’t do what you just witnessed through the window.
Now what?
When it’s obvious a child is lying, tell him that you (or another witness) saw him do what he denies. Then you must ...
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NOV
2018
NOV
2018
Remembering Ginny Steininger
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The Hanna Perkins family is mourning the loss of Virginia Steininger, who died in her home on Aug. 24. She was 89.
Steininger taught kindergarten, and was a teacher and director at Solon Cooperative Preschool before becoming the director of the child-care program at the Cuyahoga Valley Vocational School. There she taught courses in child development and helped establish the first public preschool in Ohio for children with difficulties. She then came to Hanna Perkins, where she served for 16 years ...
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SEP
2018
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2018
The fire that broke out at Fernway Elementary School on July 10 surprised Shaker Heights residents, young and old. Anyone who has a history and connection with the school feels a sense of sadness and loss. People are sharing their thoughts, memories, and feelings about their experiences and are trying to process the unexpected.
Children often are challenged by surprising events, and need parents and sometimes professionals who can help make sense of what seems senseless. Loss of any kind, even ...
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JUL
2018
JUL
2018
In 1969, the legendary Mr. Rogers made a legendary appearance before the Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to lobby for continued funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In the process, his words about the inner life of children nearly brought an initially skeptical Sen. John O. Pastore to tears.
Those words are as relevant today as they were then. Perhaps more so:
Read More →“If we can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a ...
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2018
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2018
If you shop at Heinen’s and use its Preferred Card, you can help Hanna Perkins School receive valuable donations that support us in providing valuable services to families throughout Northeast Ohio.
Through the grocery store’s Tasteful Rewards program, Preferred Card users can select a school to receive a donation form Heinen’s of 1% of whatever they buy during the school year ...
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2017
A few days after the presidential election, in one of our own classrooms, a 5-year-old declared, “My Mom voted for Trump.”
“Trump’s an idiot!” a 6-year-old classmate replied. And then a teacher stepped in.
In our schools, on the playgrounds, in our homes, conversations like this are going on amongst children ages 2 to 18 – often as not, unsupervised. Older children have been ...
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