Use these 4 practices to bring you peace and calm in your daily interactions with your child and yourself. Use them to help you to feel more balanced, connected and grounded. Use them to go from functioning to flourishing in all that you do. Continue Reading
I believe you’ll discover how you choose to respond to your child will be in ways that support and encourage and affirm them for who they are.
In return, they can feel empowered…and that child on the periphery may begin to move into the group and engage; the child that feels so deeply begins to understand and accept her feelings even more–allowing her to manage those feelings better and better; the eye-rolling/sarcastic stuff from your teen can lessen…and they may begin to open up about what is really troubling them; the button pushing turns into more cooperative behavior and you feel calmer and more patient daily Continue Reading
The Power of a Meaningful Thank You Encouraging your child to say thank you and to feel gratitude is a process. Nurturing gratitude comes with practice, modelling, acknowledging and experiencing. Regardless of whether or not children appear thankful, they can learn to express their gratitude in meaningful ways. So how do we do it? How… Continue Reading
Are you moving away from traditional, “old school, authoritarian parenting, and want more ideas for doing things differently? Do you have questions about your child’s behavior, is it normal, is it expected? Are you struggling with wanting to control your child and want to find out new, more peaceful ways to interact, build family and… Continue Reading