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

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...

Those of us parenting children who’ve experienced relational trauma can sometimes struggle to decide how to respond to behaviours that...

When children are experienced as delightful, when that’s communicated through words & actions, children experience themselves as...

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...

Children’s brains are wired differently to adult brains. The bits of the brain that help us manage our emotions and impulses, reflect on...

This right here is the key to therapeutic parenting - saying yes to the feelings (or ideas, or thoughts, or wishes, or drives) while also...

What a beautiful illustration by Hazel Mead. Reminding us to always to consider what's going on underneath the surface, to look beyond...

This statement can really help to shift our nervous system state when we’re struggling with children’s behaviour. I think there are few,...

One of the really good things about NVR is that it provides something of a map for those times where we might be in survival mode. Most...

I love this but… Yes - and no. Let’s keep the measure of success to things we can control. Children with significant levels of trauma,...

If there’s one thing children provide parents with it’s the opportunity for growth. Plenty of growth. Especially if we're parenting...