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Changing our parenting ways
As babies and children learn new things, their brain grows. There's a time for learning different things and if the opportunity's there...

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Dec 3, 20241 min read


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


Learning to feel safe
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...

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Sep 15, 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


Letting go
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...

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Jul 6, 20241 min read


Triggers and glimmers
Sometimes we know how we want to deal with things as parents. We know what we need to do and what we should avoid doing. We can picture...

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Apr 26, 20242 min read
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