…home into school is that they would lose their sense of feeling at home with their family. Every child needs a home – that is, a relational place of safety,…
…need to understand something about attachment and why it matters to kids. Children are not able to take care of themselves and they can’t make sense of the world like…
…have offended some cat lovers I confess to being one myself and hold steadfast to the idea that even cats need to have a place of home too. They remind…
…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…
…softness is a state that opens us up to being hurt. In the best interest of their development, our children must be able to tolerate this state of vulnerability. How…
…aimed to support the adults at the school in order to form the full village to support these kids. She’d often say to the staff, “We’re going to brainstorm, pull…
…separation. This can include forms of discipline that are separation-based, including time-outs and the overuse of consequences. Moving to more attachment-based and developmentally friendly forms of discipline can help to…
…many forms of expression from the non-verbal cries of a baby, to the biting and stomping of the toddler, to the eye rolling of the teenager. We can also express…
…in their agenda. Let’s consider how it must make a child feel to be bringing home a “red face” to Mom or Dad. None of us likes to disappoint those…
…were; flat-lined one might say. It now speaks to the form of what happens while denuding it of spirit. To capitalize a word is also to personalize it; that is, to give…