Biting: Reasons why & how to help them stop!

Biting usually begins during toddlerhood

Around 17 months to the age of three years old is the peak of aggression for most children. This aggression comes out in hitting, biting, scratching, or screaming. And the reason why this is the most aggressive period of time is that children have higher needs but lower language skills. Their needs are higher, but they don't have the skills to be able to communicate those needs. A lot of their frustration and communication come out with physical aggression, hence an increase in biting.

It’s important to know before I get started that biting is absolutely developmentally appropriate, meaning it is normal for children to bite. They are not Psychopaths. They do not need to be isolated or never have a playdate again.

There are things we can do to help with the biting, reduce it, and have our children function in a way so they can be around other children. So biting is absolutely normal, but it is also unacceptable.

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceAugust 10, 2020bitingComment

Is it a speech delay? Don't WAIT & see with Angie Hronek, MS CCC-SLP

Is it a speech delay? Don’t wait and see. Discover how to determine if your child has a speech delay, the next steps, and how the delay affects success with behavior, academics, and social life. Speech delay is sometimes confused with autism and vice versa.

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceAugust 3, 2020speechComment

Learn the signs to STOP Human Trafficking with Malouf Foundation

Jake Neeley is the Malouf Foundation director, which is a foundation that is a part of the company Malouf.

Malouf Foundation is supported by Malouf, so anything that comes into the foundation goes out to support their cause. Human trafficking is one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises in the world.

Jake considers himself familiar with this cause but recognizes that this is a complicated, multi-faceted issue that we are ALL learning about. Any of us can learn more about human trafficking.

Everyone doesn't have to be an EXPERT, but this will bring us to a higher level of competence to understand what it looks like and how to help victims.

Find Malouf Foundation:

www.malouffoundation.org/

Take the Malouf Foundation On Watch training here: www.malouffoundation.org/onwatch/

Instagram: @malouffoundation

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceJuly 30, 2020Comment

Building a Strong Foundation to Support Positive Behavior

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceJuly 27, 2020Comment

Getting Through Trapped Emotions with Talesha Carter

All behavior is communication, even PARENT behavior. When we feel triggered or explode for no logical reason -- it's likely that we have trapped emotion coming to the surface. Talesha Carter, is going to share how we UN-TRAP that emotion & how do we help our kids do the same.

Emotions are energy in motion. If you take anything that has energy, like a thought, vibration, feeling -- all of that combined together can become trapped in the body.

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceJuly 20, 2020emotionsComment

Create an Intentional Family Culture

Family Culture is made up of the unwritten rules. The things that the [insert last name] do. It’s what relationships look like And what this family does when no one else is watching.

We spend so much time planning for the wedding, college, vacation, first day of school… that sometimes we overlook the day-to-day. The tiny moments, interactions, patterns, and habits that are actually shaping our children's world view. The day-to-day is where you will find the family culture.

Our traditions, the days we value, the activities we participate in, who cleans, who cooks, how we talk about our neighbors, how we look at strangers. The affection we show and the way we resolve conflicts. All of these little things are part of the way our children see the world.

Strong families don’t happen by accident. It’s intentional.

Child Development, The Rising Lava Parenting PodcastLauren PaceJuly 13, 2020Comment