Holding Space for Your Child's Grief: Navigating Loss Together
By holding space for your child’s grief, you give them the gift of feeling seen and heard.
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Child & Parent Resilience
Intention – What’s Your Plan?
With intention you can influence what pathways are strengthened in your child's brain, nurturing resilience and well-being.
Identity – Getting to Really Know Your Child
Getting to really know your child's developmental level, temperament and interests is important to support their development of identity.
The Gift of Resilience
Parents can nurture the gift of resilience with knowledge of brain development, repeated experience and secure attachment.
Happy 1st Anniversary Child and Parent Resilience Blog
This blog post is the condensed version of my why for The Child and Parent Resilience Blog.
Parenting Then and Now: Examining the Changing Landscape
This blog posts examines what has changed in parenting from the 90's to now. Current trends focus on new research about how children develop
Dealing with Childhood Anxiety - Part 1
A Guide for Parents and Caregivers Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. Anxiety is our body’s normal reaction to perceived...
Go From Power Struggles to Co-operation with Young Children
Strategies to encourage co-operation and avoid power struggles with young children
Motivation and the Slippery Slope of Praise
Good job! That makes me so happy! You are so smart! I love your picture! All of that positive praise must be good … right? What if I told...
How To Nurture Intrinsic Motivation
How To Nurture Intrinsic Motivation In the previous blog post I explained the difference between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic...
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CHILD'S TEMPERAMENT
Temperament is your child’s unique approach to the world, their natural tendencies. Differences in temperament influence the way children...
Feelings - A Window To Your Child's Thoughts and Perspective
Feelings are a window into the inner thoughts and perspective of the child. When an adult attunes to the feelings of a child, that child...
5 Steps of Conflict Resolution
“That’s mine!” “I had it first!” “They hit me!” “Stop!” “MOM!” If you have multiple children, or work with groups of children, this...
How To Promote Growth Mindset
Carol Dweck coined the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and...
5 STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Resilience is often associated with big life events with stories of survival and growth during the most adverse situations. However, the...
5 STEPS TO A MORE CONFIDENT PARENT MINDSET
A confident parent mindset matters because it affects the way you raise your children, your stress levels and overall well-being.
Intention – What’s Your Plan?
With intention you can influence what pathways are strengthened in your child’s brain. Hold on to your hats, you can also change, modify,...
Connection is the Key
The experience of secure attachment is essential to a child's development, well-being and resilience. Connection is the key!
The Gift of Resilience
The Gift of Resilience through repeated experiences of connection, validation and intention.
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