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Ellen Mossman-Glazer - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Ellen Mossman-Glazer M.S.Ed.is a Life Skills Coach and Behavior Specialist Consultant who works with adults, parents and their kids to create their personal, practical tools to thrive in every setting. Ellen works in private practice in person, by email and teleconference, specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorder/Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, and Toddler Parent Coaching. Ellen has recently released an audio-visual Parent Tutorial Program, Online Safety: 85 Actions to Safeguard Your Kids From the Dark Side of ... [More]

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  • Parenting and Single Dads - Five Actions For Rich Relationships With Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Divorce is never easy for kids, but there are some steps single dads can take to help their adjustment. These tips are good ones for single moms too, but they are more commonly the challenges that single dads face as they move on to creating a different life with their kids.


  • Parenting and Divorce- Five Graceful Actions To Ease the Way for Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] The very emotional politics that come with divorced parenting can draw the kids into the battle, despite all the good intentions. Acting on these tips will be a gift to your kids.


  • Social Skills, Parenting and Teaching: Are You Teaching Your Kids to Ignore You?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents and teachers dedicate a lot of energy to teaching their kids all the lessons and skills they need to master. But the adults borderline on burnout trying to make things happen. These four powerful tips give parents and teachers the extra little steps that get better results from their kids while building mutual respect. These tips can work with children of every age, and may be customized to the special needs of kids and adults who have Asperger Syndrome, high functioning autism or ADHD.


  • Social Skills and a Peaceful Household: Are You Inviting Cooperation or Conflict?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents tend to make parenting harder for themselves without realizing it. The volume of daily skills and tasks that parents need to teach your kids can get so overwhelming that something has to give – so they give in. It is understandable but it is avoidable. Here are four actions that most parents already know but need reminders to carry out. These tips can work with children of every age, and may be customized to the special needs of kids and adults who have Asperger Syndrome, high functioning autism or ADHD.


  • Social Skills Training and Self-Esteem: Fine-Tune Your Praise with Five Unlimited Ways
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Praise and recognition are crucial self-esteem builders in a child's development. How often do you stop to reflect on just the right way to praise your child's positive actions? It is especially important to make your praise clear and specific with younger children and children who have diagnoses of Asperger Syndrome, Autism and ADHD. Here are five categories of Praise Words with unlimited possibilities.


  • Social Skills Training and Rewards: Five Tips to Tailor Your System to a Perfect Fit for Your Child
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents, educators and caregivers tend to overlook some essentials in their otherwise well-crafted behavior change program. Here are five key questions that are a guide to tailoring your program to fit your child's individuality. This article will be especially helpful in working with the special needs and nuances of a behavior change program for kids and adults with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and ADHD.


  • Social Skills Training and Rewards: Six Tips for Fine Tuning Your Child's Behavior Change Program
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When parents and teachers lament, "This behavior mod stuff does not work!" chances are, they just need to have a closer look at the reward component of their behavior change program. Here are six key questions to help design and refine your child’s reward system. This article will be especially helpful in working with the special needs and nuances of a behavior change program for kids and adults with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and ADHD.


  • Social Skills and Friendship: What Are the Signs of a True Friend?
    [Relationships:Friendship] These tips on how choose friends wisely are universal but are stated in a way that is especially helpful for teens, tweens and individuals with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and ADHD.


  • Social Skills and Problem Solving: Parents, Are You Listening?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Listening is often the most important part of helping kids solve their problems. Most parents are well equipped with listening skills, but don't use them when interacting with their kids. This article reminds parents that in many cases, when helping their kids, they don't have to do anything very different from how they help their friends.


  • Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism: Five Questions to Help Teachers
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Here are five key elements that help parents and teachers work with children and adults who have Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism.


  • Social Skills and Your Behavior Change Program: Troubleshooting when the Rewards Aren't Working
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] "Rewards just don't work with my child!" This is a phrase heard often from frustrated parents and teachers, particularly those working with children who have Autism, Asperger Syndrome or ADHD. This article has six questions to think about and use as a guide to fine-tuning rewards to make them work.


  • Social Skills and Friendship: 6 Strategies to Make and Keep Friends When It Does Not Come Naturally
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] The skills of making and keeping friends come much more difficult to our kids and adults who have Asperger Syndrome or Autism. They need extra help in picking up the subtle steps that come naturally to others. Here are six steps for working with the more subtle aspects of friendship building.


  • Social Skills and Managing Emotions: Helping Your Child with Impulse Control in Social Situations
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Some of our children need extra help to learn emotional self-control in situations where their impulses get them in trouble before they know it. This is especially true for kids and adults who are highly sensitive, or are struggling with the challenges of Asperger Syndrome, Autism or ADHD. Here are strategies to help.


  • Social Skills and Self-Esteem: Nine Strategies to Help Your Kids See Their Greatness
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Sometimes we have to be very specific and direct to help our kids recognize their personal talents and abilities. This is especially true for children and many adults who have Asperger Syndrome, Autism, or ADHD. Here are nine strategies to guide your challenging loved ones to feel great about what they can do.


  • Social Skills and Talking to Your Kids: Negative Influences in Their Everyday Media
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] TV, the internet, music and video bombard today's kids with negative and innappropriate information every day. Exasperated parents wonder how to counteract all the Here are systematic steps to help parents encourage their kids to be open and receptive to having conversations. about what they see and hear. This is especially important when working with your kids and adults with ADHD, Autism and Asperger Syndrome.


  • Fathers: Ten Parent Qualities You Can Model For Your Children Every Day
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Every father wants his children to look up to him. Here are ten qualities that fathers can model as they spend time with their children. This personalized article shares the qualities the author admired in her father.


  • Life Skills and Decision Making: Coaching Your Teen to Think It Through
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Sometimes when teens need guidance the wisest way to parent is to lead them through a thinking process that helps them come up with their own answers. Parents can do this by planting some key questions. Here are nine tips to guide your teens without 'telling them what to do'.


  • Social Skills and Consequences: 8 Keys to Help Your Child Learn Naturally
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When creating a behavior change program, it is important for parents and teachers to understand what a natural consequence is and how to successfully plan for consequences that will be learning experiences for their children. This article gives eight essential tips for working with consequences, including special considerations for kids with Autism, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome and other LD issues. This is a companion article to "Social Skills and Consequences: Not Just Another Word for Punishment".


  • Social Skills and Consequences: Not Just Another Word for Punishment
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When parents and teachers are creating behavior change programs it is important for them to understand the differences between a 'consequence' and a 'punishment. This article discusses the distinctions between the two and clarifies how consequences are more effective in helping children to learn to handle responsibility and grow independence. This is a companion article to "Social Skills and Consequences: 8 Keys to Help Your Child Learn Naturally."


  • Social Skills and Cooperation: Short Specific Statements That Say Everything You Need
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When parents and teachers exhaust themselves trying to get kids to take charge of their responsibilities, they are usually working much too hard at it. The 'SSS Method' is a simple repeated sentence which will marvelously do the trick with none of the drain of coaxing, reminding and losing your cool to see the action you are looking for.


  • Social Skills and Goal Setting: Ten Tips to Help Teens Set Goals They Won't Fizzle Out On
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When goals are too ambitious they are less likely to be met. Here are ten tips to help teens set realistic goals and follow through with them.


  • Social Skills and Problem Solving: A Coaching Method for Guiding Your Kids to Solve Problems Wisely
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] A different approach to teaching your kids to make wise decisions is to coach them with questions to ponder. Here are nine questions along with some do's and don't's for your presentation.


  • Social Skills and Feelings Education: Five Ways to Coach Your Child on Emotions in Everyday Life
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Understanding emotions can make the difference between a deep breath and a physical fight. Feelings education is particularly important and especially challenging for our kids and adults with Asperger Syndrome, Autism and ADHD. With a little extra attention, parents, educators and caregivers can weave in through the daily routine, these 'in the moment' strategies.


  • Social Skills and Feelings Education: Turn Your Kids' Favorite Media into Your Best Teaching Tool
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents, educators and caregivers can join in with what their children love to be doing, and in the process teach them to recognize and handle life's emotional ups and downs. Here are five 'quality time' activities.


  • Social Skills in the Workplace: A Case Study to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome
    [Business:Workplace-Communication] We again visit the workplace of employer "Jack" who has been creating customized training programs to help his new employee "Al" who has Asperger Syndrome. In this case study, three action plans are designed to help Al with the more social side of office responsibilities


  • Social Skills Training for Parents and Educators: Do You Convey Your Rules with Crystal Clarity?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents and teachers, who are wondering why their rules are not being followed may be missing the obvious steps that show what it is they want from the guideline or boundary they set. Particularly when working with ADHD, Asperger Syndrome and high functioning autism, social skills training can come dramatically easier when communicated with a specificity that is often overlooked


  • Social Skills Training for Parents and Educators: "Ground Rules? So What is Expected of Me?"
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Do you find that you set out your ground rules and then wonder why they don’t seem to be working? The solution is probably connected to how you ask – or don’t ask - for the behavior you want. Clarity of rules is especially important when working on social skills with our challenging loved ones who have ADHD, Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism. See what ‘specific’ and ‘clear’ really look like.


  • Homework and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: Seven Tips for the Tougher Days
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] A child who feels capable and successful is at his best as a student and a person. Here are seven tips to help parents tune in and help their child manage feelings and stick with the job when the homework going gets tough.


  • Helping Your Child With the Homework Load: Six Ways Parents Can Get Involved
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents often find they are not sure how to help their kids get their homework done without doing the work for them. Here are six specific 'jobs' for parents to help students use their time wisely when there is a heavy work load. These tips are especially useful with ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autism or LD issues.


  • Homework: Six Strategies to Prevent Your Child from Getting Into Overwhelm
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Does your child begin to flounder under the homework load sometime after the new semester begins? Following are six prevention strategies to help him or her avoid overwhelm and chaos that can creep in as the year moves on. Good tips for all students, these are particularly useful for those with ADHD, Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism.


  • Help Your Employee With Asperger Syndrome Get into the Flow of Your Office Routines
    [Business:Workplace-Communication] Your new employee with Asperger Syndrome excels in managing complex software programs but he needs basic training in the routine skills for office place survival. This is a case study where Boss, Employee and Coach work together to make office life easier for all.


  • Practical Tips to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome Get Established in Your Office
    [Business:Workplace-Communication] You have just hired someone who has Asperger Syndrome to join your office team. That likely means you have a new employee with the talent you are looking for and now you want to help set the scene for success. Here are six straightforward strategies to help your new employee prosper and produce for your business.


  • Communication Tips to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome Thrive in Your Work Place
    [Business:Workplace-Communication] Your talented new employee has Asperger Syndrome. The challenging part of this job, for him or her, will likely be getting into the flow of the more subtle aspects of routine office life that others naturally adapt to. Help them thrive on the job with these seven straightforward tips.


  • Social Skills Training: Rejection - Tune In to Help Your Kids Tune Up Their Group Acceptance Skills
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] The popular kids seem to ‘own the secrets of life,’ while the lonely, ‘unchosen’ kids struggle, usually unaware that there are any ‘secrets’ to be had. Those ‘secrets,’ are particularly elusive to children and adults with Asperger Syndrome and Autism. Here are ten tips to help you help your kids handle rejection.


  • Holiday Gatherings: Ten Tips to Stay Sane and Centered With the Challenging Grown Ups
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Holiday time can be a mixed blessing with the challenging people in your life and your plans. You can love your family or social group like crazy, but there is something about the season that can bring out the crazy in everyone. Here are some think ahead pointers that you may find will ring your holiday bells:


  • Social Skills Training for Parents and Educators: The Micro Steps are the Key to Success
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] We do a good job of social skills education when our kids are very little and just starting out in their lives as students. For our challenging loved ones who may have a diagnosis of ADHD, High Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome or another that brings with it behavioral challenges, the rules of social acceptance are invisible... until they have the opportunity to learn the micro steps.


  • Parenting with Emotional Intelligence - 10 Tips to Nurture Self-Pride in Your Child
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Why is it important to help our loved ones develop pride? Feeling proud strengthens self-esteem and good self esteem is the emotional fuel for good accomplishments. Feeling proud leads to feeling that you matter, that you are worthy to others. A wonderful consequence of nurturing pride is strong self-worth. These ten tips will help you weave pride-building experiences throughout each day.


  • Social Skills Training for Parents and Educators: 10 Tips To Work with Your Own Emotions
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Emotions can run away on you very quickly, especially when you are working with challenges presented by individuals with diagnoses such as Asperger Syndrome or ADHD. A first step is doing some prep work with your own emotional style. These ten tips are your guide to creating your own personal and productive Emotional Operating System.




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