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NVR parenting - warm and firm
Deciding where to set our expectations for our children can be tricky when there's trauma, disabilities, and other things going on like...

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Sep 21, 20242 min read


If the only tool we have is a hammer...
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's tempting to treat every problem as though it were a nail. A quote often attributed to Abraham...

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Sep 12, 20241 min read


Breathe
When things are going well it's easier to be intentional in our parenting. It's much more of a challenge when we're out of our window of...

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Aug 30, 20241 min read


Alice's Umbrella
Human beings learn by experience - things going well and things going not so well. It’s tempting to feel as though we need to say...

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Aug 27, 20242 min read


Achieving better connections
Last year friend and colleague Al Coates and I wrote a parenting course for a local authority to use as their default training for...

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Jul 3, 20241 min read


The measure of parenting success
A quote by lived experience trauma therapist Glenn Patrick Doyle - "We're not ourselves when we're triggered. We become who we think we...

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Jul 1, 20241 min read
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