…will be of service to the many parents and teachers and helping professionals who wish to make sense of the children in their care and who yearn for their charges…

Editor’s Note: Mathieu Lyons is on Faculty and also the Director for the Neufeld Institute’s French program. We welcome this piece as his first editorial. This year, my daughter (Emma,

…member at the Neufeld Institute, working alongside internationally respected clinical and developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld, who wrote Hold On To Your Kids with Dr. Gabor Mate. I have helped…

…to operate from that deep natural instinct. My wife is a prime example of this. No one had to tell her what I am telling you because she seems to…

…logical the consequences may be when a child isn’t thinking in terms of outcomes. To not fully appreciate this fact can make one feel crazy at times and render discipline…

…went, with Gail quietly taking note. At one point I just stopped and asked my daughter if she was going to continue to do the opposite of everything I suggested….

…talking about alpha children and the resulting challenges in my keynote address to the Neufeld Institute Annual Parenting Conference in Vancouver this May. Consult the website for more details.  …

…relatively speaking, in which to do it. Now let me return to why I think this quote brilliant and why it becomes my ultima*]}*te yearning as well as captures my

…be used with children and teens. Unfortunately, we see many examples of children who are given complete carte blanche access to technology, with minimal supervision and without structures or routines….

…any teacher until I met Miss Perkins in the 7th Grade. Miss Perkins was not a young bachelorette, but rather a grandmotherly woman who never married. She showered delight and…

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