🌱Growth, Not Perfection - celebrating progress over outcomes🌱

In this newsletter, you will get....

• Parenting Tips

• Activity of the Week

• Now Available: Daisy Core Emotion Kit

Parenting Tips

Helping Kids Embrace Growth

• Praise the Process, Not the Product
  Instead of “You’re so smart”, try:
  “You worked really hard on that” or “I noticed you didn’t give up”

• Normalize Mistakes
  Say out loud:
  “Mistakes mean your brain is growing” or “It’s okay to not know yet”

• Share Your Own Learning
  Let kids hear you say:
  “I made a mistake today and learned from it.” Modeling growth builds courage.

• Reflect on Progress
  Ask at the end of the day:
  “What did you try today that felt hard?” or “What are you proud of?”

• Create Safe Space to Try
  Remind your child:
  You don’t have to be perfect here. You just have to try.

Activity of the Week

The Growth Jar

You’ll Need:

• A jar or small container

• Paper slips and markers

How to Use It:

1. Each time someone tries something hard, makes a mistake, or keeps going, write it down.

2. Add it to the jar.

3. At the end of the week, read the slips together and celebrate the courage behind each one.

Bonus Tools

• “Yet” Language:
  When your child says, “I can’t do this,” respond with,
  “You can’t do it yet and that’s okay.”

• Emotion Wheel:
  Use it to talk about feelings that come with learning; frustration, pride, nervousness, excitement.

• Family Reflection Ritual:
  Once a week ask:
  “Where did we grow this week?”
  “What did we learn from mistakes?”

Now Available: Daisy Core Emotion Kit

I Feel… When… I Need…

This simple I Feel… When… I Need… tool turns big, confusing emotions into something children can see, name, and talk about.

Instead of melting down or acting out, kids learn a powerful skill: connecting their feelings to what’s happening and what they need next.

When children fill in the chart, they practice three essential steps of emotional intelligence:

• I Feel… → Naming the emotion builds awareness and reduces overwhelm

• When… → Understanding what triggered the feeling builds insight and empathy

• I Need… → Learning how to ask for support builds confidence and communication

Over time, this helps children move from reacting to expressing, from shutting down to speaking up.

💡 Why it matters:

• Builds emotional vocabulary

• Teaches self-regulation and problem solving

• Strengthens parent-child connection

• Helps kids advocate for their needs in healthy ways

This tool gently teaches children:
“My feelings make sense, and I’m allowed to ask for what I need.”

And that belief is the foundation of lifelong emotional strength.

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