Family Coping Strategies During Times of Change
2020 is a year of change for everyone. As soon as you get used one thing, things change again, and the sense of uncertainty is stressful even without fear of the virus itself. If you’re feeling uneasy about the unknown or worried about how you’re going to balance it...
How Parents Can Use Curiosity to Fuel Positive Decision Making
Finding ways to motivate your children to make healthy decisions can be tricky. Threatening to take away screen/play time can be an effective strategy, but does encourage good choices out of fear rather than genuine interest. Luckily, recent psychological research...
Let Character Be Your Silver Lining
Image source Dear Friends, I was on the phone earlier today talking with one of my staff members when my daughter taps my hand and mouths quietly that Dorito, her hedgehog, needs a bath as he’s gotten “something gross” on his paws and now it’s all over her blanket....
4 Strategies to Raising a Compassionate Child
Compassion: to respond to the misfortune of others with concern, sympathy, and kindness. Instilling those values in your children is a noble goal, especially in the reactionary world of today where opposing opinions are enough to shut down empathy from both sides. As...
5 Tips for Accepting Your Kids as They Are
I’m not a parent, and there are a few reasons for that… …the most important being I’m not mentally, emotionally, or financially prepared (though as a senior in college, you can say that about most things in my life.) The other reason, though, is one I...
What does #LiveInsideOut mean?
We are working to build a generation of children and families that strive to “live inside out”. What does that mean? We focus on helping kids develop the character skills (i.e. social and emotional skills) necessary to thrive in their lives, schools, and later in jobs and community, which is the “inside piece”. The “outside” part is being connected to the community through volunteerism. All of our programs combine these two elements!
5 Opportunities to Get Involved
Inside Out Club DuPage offers an after-school program, weekend program, and online (Inside Out Club Live). Additionally, IOCD provides parents and educators with two online resources to help them build character and volunteer from home.
Working with teachers, volunteers, parents, school administrators and outside organizations, the Inside Out Club is positively impacting more than 3,000 children and their families each year.