Children are here to help us evolve and grow up. There are many people throughout time who have said in many ways that children are here to help us…
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Guide your children to learn life-skills through play – whatever their preferred form of play is. Sometimes we can outsource the forms of play that we really don’t enjoy. Others…
What is your system already doing to take care of you? Catch yourself doing it. Then think, say, and feel: “Look at me taking care of me!” You may not…
Help your children experience the power of self-calming and self-soothing, in achievable small steps. I was looking through old pictures the other day, and found one of my daughter…
Help your children experience the power of being with their big emotions, and not running away from them, by doing and modeling that yourself. They’ve found with fMRI studies…
Rereading follow-ups I have written over the years for clients after each session, I notice so many ways parents bring waves of light that ripple to us all. Please let...
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These days, it can be hard to escape the stories in the media about grit. People call it grit, gumption, self-sufficiency. But how about calling it self-efficacy, believing you have…
Talk with other adults in your child’s presence and talk with your child directly. “Wow! Look at how hard that must’ve been for them to learn, and get themselves to…