…child, validate each child, and seek to come alongside without judgement or criticism, we can let go of the feeling of having to investigate or take a side. Honouring and…
…that he finds annoying (almost everything). All he wants to talk about are cars and videogames (or insert a couple of things that you know, and care, almost nothing about),…
…imbue meaning, they start a conversation, and are a way to make sense of an experience as well as provide room for having a relationship with them. One day my…
…their life in a gentle way as needed. 2. Shield with a Safe Attachment. When a child has a caring attachment that they can take for granted, their heart…
…a central conclusion of everything developmental science can teach us: Children are not born “adult-ish.” They cannot learn adultish-ness. Mature experience and acting cannot be enforced. Narrow act-as-if-mature behaviour traits…
…so we waited… A couple weeks ago I walked by our living room window and looked, once again, at our tree and stared in awe as I realized it had…
…press pause and catch up with myself. And so here, more than a decade after those initial rumblings, I find myself sitting at the beginning of an experiment. An experiment…
…going away for a night, he and I were playing basketball on the driveway as his dad drove out and on his way. My son looked at me, alarmed, and…
…Tammy over soup and conversation. I admired her work — it was bold and raw and creative. But there was something I admired even more, and that was her ability…
…Additionally, “Frustration” would have been a more accurate name for what Pixar coined “Anger”—and would have served as a blame-free word choice, to boot. Likewise, “Alarm” would have been a…