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Raising a Confident Child... Preparing our kids for true greatness
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The Absent-Minded Professor
As a psychologist, I often come into contact with children who are very bright but do not seem to be able to show this potential...
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New Year's Resolutions: How Turtles Succeed
If you’re like me and many people that I know, I find myself setting the same New Year’s resolutions year after year...
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A Theory of Emotions: Part Three
My recent articles for this newsletter have focused on a theory of emotions. The basic tenets of this theory are that emotions are a universal and vital human experience...
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But How Can It Work If I Don't Remember It
Try this experiment… Ask a friend to close their eyes and “notice” what happens while you, in a stern voice, say “No” repeatedly...
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To Test Or Not To Test
To test or not to test…this is a question many parents are faced with at some point during their child’s journey through school...
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Sibling Love
Siblings fight. In fact, 2 to 4 year olds will experience about seven to eight disputes per hour. 3 to 9 year old siblings fight just as much, but...
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Coaching Students with Learning Disabilities to Think Actively
3.4 million Canadians have Learning Disabilities. This means that 25 times more people have LDs than Autism Spectrum Disorder, 64 times more people have LDs than prostate cancer...
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Anger: Friend or Foe?
It was a warm, sunny day, a real gift for us snowbound, housebound Canadians, and my daughter and I headed out to hang with family friends for an impromptu lunch...
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Exercise and the AD/HD Brain
I don‟t know if your children‟s school made the same change as my daughters,‟ but this year they have scheduled Phys. Ed. first thing in the morning...
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The Forgiving Habit
As parents we are constantly faced with the difficult and opposing reality of wanting to shield our children from all harm...
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Ladders and Walls in Motherhood
How many times has this happened to you… you are going about your day when all of a sudden your cell phone rings? You pick it up and on the other end...
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Parenting Struggles 101
Most parents struggle when it comes to handling difficult encounters with their kids. There are three major reasons for this...
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Why is Assertiveness Training Important for Kids?
With increased awareness and information provided on bullying in schools, we may be ....
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Why Is Temperament Important for Parents to Understand?
Have you ever wondered why the parenting strategies you use with your children work ....
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As Shine FM listeners you likely have chosen this station because it mirrors
you and your family’s values. You enjoy the fact that any member of your family
can listen and the words spoken and sung bring encouragement, truth, and knowledge.
Eckert Psychology & Education Centre is pleased to be a new member of the Shine FM
family.
The staff at Eckert Centre is:
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Dedicated to bringing you, as listeners of Shine FM, up-to-date and
trustworthy information on child development, parenting, relationships,
and mental health.
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Committed to helping kids find success at school and providing them with
skills to navigate their social world
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Devoted to supporting families with children with special needs
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Honored to come alongside individuals of all ages in dealing with the
challenges they are facing
Our team provides psychology and education services to children, teens and adults.
Over the past seven years, we’ve earned the reputation (from doctors, teachers,
speech therapists, and occupational therapists throughout Calgary) of being a
premier service centre whose mission is to provide only quality, research-based
services.
Our core purpose at Eckert Centre is to fill the world with hopeful people who joyfully embrace life, by deeply caring for themselves and others while pursuing their God-given purpose with passion. We do this by transforming people from the inside out through our premier professional training, psychology, coaching, and supplementary educational services. Thank you for letting us become part of your family.
Blessings on you and yours,
Kimberly Eckert
Founder and Executive Director
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