Emotionally Nutritious Words
Emotionally Nutritious Words for Children
The Nurtured Heart Approach™ was developed by Howard Glasser as a method to address the intensity of a challenging child’s uncontrolled anger, aggression, defiance and disrespect. Many parents, teachers and therapists find themselves struggling with a challenging child’s intensity and find good intentions, common parenting strategies, and teaching and counseling strategies not only frustrating, but failing. The Nurtured Heart Approach™ regards a child’s intensity as a gift that needs to be nurtured, which will consistently help one to use intensity as a productive force successfully. The child learns to believe and build confidence in the successes that flow from fully investing intensity, intelligence and life force into positive action, resulting in great “Inner Wealth.” The same child that acts out problems quickly becomes a child who is able to act out “Greatness” — what everyone wanted in their hearts all along!
Tell a Child That He or She is...
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A joy |
Or that he or she has…A quick mind Or that he or she is showing, having or demonstrating…Amazing forethought |
Other Ideas: “I am the greatness of..."Being a warrior (the positive side of power) |
Just and Fair