Hey parents! It's that time of year again when the summer break is right around the corner. How are you feeling? What do you anticipate? For many, this can be a time of looking forward to carefree days of open calendars and fun with family and friends. There can...
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The Very Best Gift! Putting You Back in the Equation This Holiday Season.
This time of year, we talk about peace, joy and family but it can be hard to feel the love when we are overwhelmed, stressed or alone. Here are 5 things that can help connect more and stress less. First and foremost, believe this. At any age, your child's best gift is...
What If I Just Don’t Want To Be Friends?
Has your child (or even you) been in a situation where one wants to be friends while another doesn’t? Maybe it is causing conflict? This can become emotionally charged territory for parents. On one hand, we teach children about inclusion, being a good friend and not...
7 Shifts to Help Manage Negative Sibling Dymanics
One of the things that can really send many adults over the edge is the negative dynamics that can happen between children. With the summer coming up and our children having more time on their hands as well as more time together, I am preparing for the dependable...
Important Insight into Raising a Millennial – It’s Not All Their Fault 🙂
If you are the parent of a child born after 1984, you have raised/are raising a Millennial. The factors explored in this video that have given them labels like 'entitled', 'unfocused', 'self-interested' and 'lazy' are parenting, technology, impatience, and...
Just 7 of the Great Qualities of Parents
In a future article, I want to more fully explore change. How do we decide what we need to change, let go of what we don't and go through the process. One of the critical parts of the equation will most certainly be perspective. Until we can see and focus on what is...
A Different Perspective on Difficult Behaviour
In my last post, I explored the topic of self-esteem, or as I outlined, Inner Wealth™. This is a big focus for parents, guardians, educators, caregivers and treatment professionals alike. When we understand that how we feel helps guide how we behave, we can...
Is Self-esteem a Bad Thing?
Reading an article about self-esteem, I got the impression that adults are focused on building up children’s self-esteem and this is a bad thing. It suggested that this practice is doing the opposite of raising a ‘good’ person. With examples of criminals having...
What Makes the Nurtured Heart Approach® Different?
Let’s face it, children can be challenging. Those who raise or work with children have many resources to support them yet often feel frustrated that nothing seems to work. Instead of feeling less stress, more confident, more effective and a sense of setting children...