…– a day without agendas, without “shoulds,” without email, without anything that feels like work… a day for family. This has been one of the hardest things to do and…
…him, how Thomas longed to stroke his fur, how sad it would be if Schnurr really would not return, and tried to lead Thomas from his agitation softly into the…
…how I can provide a safe, deep attachment to help grow my children into resilient, soft-hearted, independent people. For me, it really comes down to parenting with confidence – believing…
…can be trained (e.g. “Say, ‘thank you.’”), so children obey a concrete prescription. But this is not at all the same as true maturity, and rather unreliable. Loss of self-control…
…vulnerable feelings that make us human; … to normalize the overwhelm, without being overtaken by it; … to stumble through it all, feeling the bumps and bruises, without…
…you and so much of you just wants to push back, or pack up and run for the hills to find a place without cell service or wifi. How do…
…– a whole day at school away from us, away from her sister. She was already struggling with peers and found it hard to hold on for the morning without…
…make the time and space for expression. If we don’t, our emotions will seek expression anyway and will leak (or explode) out of us without our consent. With the emotion…
…the class. With disgust on her face and harsh scorn in her tone, she tried to pull a moral conscience out of him right there and then. As she demanded…
…care of our attachment relationships by giving our survival-based emotions a way of being expressed without real-life repercussions. When a child’s behaviour is rooted in the attacking energy that comes…