Maybe lately you’re seeing more clearly, and feeling more acutely, your foundational need for safety and security. With that, and so much more, it’s quite a unique context for Mother’s Day….
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A strong sense of self can be born of many circumstances. Whatever the combination of factors, we help our child and the situation most when we acknowledge and respect that…
Life is a social science experiment. From the moment we are born, all of us are witnessing our behaviors and those of others, and making meaning of the comparison. Each…
The drive in us to create is foundational. When we as parents and teachers see a child revving up the people and things they’re with, we can help by asking…
Taken from that perspective, a child’s behaviors become an opportunity for the parent and teacher to discover what traits are being expressed in the child’s behaviors. When we’ve identified a…
When we are fully present with our child we are helping turn off their survival mode. A child knows when our mind is somewhere else. They know mom or dad…
Children can trust themselves and their parent when their parent’s energy and words match. When there’s a mismatch, the child has to distrust either their parents or their own perceptions….
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…
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…