I have great respect for Brene Brown & love her perspective here. She’s all about family values - taking children on a loving journey...

Emotion coaching has come up a few times this week in work with parents. When the first emotion we see and feel from our children is...

It’s very unusual for us to have a day out that’s not on the beach or in a field - the highlight being a cup of tea from a tin kettle in...

Haim Ginott was a teacher, educational psychologist, child psychotherapist, parent educator, and loving stepfather. He was also a...

I'm delivering an NVR group at the moment and this morning we were thinking about increasing our presence (in their minds and hearts)...

Yesterday I had the honour and the privilege of spending the day with a group of kinship carers - thinking together about the difficult...

Some children need ‘Superparents’ - the premise of Amber Elliot’s book for therapeutic parents. But striving to be the perfect parent for...

I've got NVR groups underway, new individual families as well as existing families, I’m just restarting university for the second/last...

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

Learning to feel safe after a lifetime of being on guard is going to take time. In adoption, fostering, or kinship care - “a lifetime of...

We all make mistakes as parents. We all have regrets. We all feel shame sometimes. Give yourself permission to move on from the parent...

Carl Jung said everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. It’s true. Sometimes things...

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...

Where there’s family violence, there’s shame. Children can be violent and aggressive for all sorts of reasons. For some children big...

Suicidal thoughts and feelings can be the reality of life for lots of people for lots of reasons - an ongoing struggle. Telling somebody...

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...

We’ve got a reactive cavapoo who barks a lot when anybody walks past the house, especially if they’ve got a dog. Initially there was no...

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...

My conscious thinking brain knows this. My unconscious emotional brain sometimes doesn't. When we're feeling wound up by our kids it's...