make them feel safe. Safety has much less to do with their surroundings and more to do with their connection to adults. Assuring our children that they will be ‘okay’…

…prescriptions on how they should handle something, seizing the opportunity to teach a lesson about life. “If you would keep your things more organized then you would know where to

to make a choice over how their children should be educated.  It isn’t hard to understand that children need to go to school for the economy to recover or that…

…state which is difficult to tolerate. This can lead to frustration, which can lead to eruptions (both child and adult). Children who can hold themselves together at school will often…

…free to simply BE – to sleep, to read, to cook, even to organize my cupboards, as long as it was coming from a place of desire and play, not…

make them feel safe with us, so they may be open to our guidance. We need to be their safe place, the place where they feel safe enough to let down…

…with their strengths and weaknesses. We all need to work together to make it a good place.” Martine and Elizabeth settled on four key tasks on their path towards making…

…We need to make this our priority above all. To do this, however, we need to know what immaturity looks like so that we will also know when maturation is…

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…was given to him – when lost, to go back to the beginning.   We do need to have some sense of the beginning however, to return to it. That is, that…

more important than cultivating their sense of home with us? This is infinitely more important emotionally and developmentally than figuring out how to turn our home into a school.  When…

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