Happy New Year from one courageous parent to another. This year, I’ve seen so much quiet courage - tough decisions that needed to be...

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...

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

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...

Parenting is hard. Really hard. Therapeutic parenting is beyond hard. In all the therapeutic parenting advice (specific to...

Relationship gestures - a fancy term for all the things we do that keep us deeply connected to our children - are fundamental to NVR. A...

The terminology around children's harmful behaviour is tricky and language matters. The language we use influences whether families...

There's a lot of letting go in NVR. One of the things we can let go of is the idea that we're responsible for the actions and responses...

Being told to make space for self care when things are difficult can feel shallow & it can highlight just how little people understand...

Parenting is hard. Really hard. Therapeutic parenting is beyond hard. In all the therapeutic parenting advice (specific to...