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Do You Have An Anxious Child?

When children tend to ask repetitive “What If?” questions, they may run a little anxious.  Anxiety is the brain’s way of thinking through what could go wrong in a situation, […]

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When Your Child Steals

You must accept that your child is going to steal something at least once. Typically, children do not know that stealing is wrong unless they do it and are corrected. […]

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Creating Healthy Habits Through Learned History

Parents often come to see me because they are distressed about their child’s “extremely bad behavior.” When I try to collect details about the problem, very few parents can answer […]

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Teaching Children How to Be Humble

Pride destroys relationships. Pride prevents successful conversations, hinders people from accepting responsibility, disregards others, eliminates a person’s ability to compromise or connect, and eradicates vulnerability. When a person struggles to […]

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Teaching Self-Compassion to Battle Shame

Dr. Brené Brown, who researches emotions, defines shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and, therefore, unworthy of love, belonging, and connection.  Simply […]

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Becoming a Student of Your Child

Teachers, counselors, pediatricians, and everyone else who works with children are distressed by how often parents are unaware of how their choices, behaviors, and words may negatively impact development. Emotionally […]

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Polyvagal Stimulation for Children

Have you ever wondered why weighted blankets help us sleep better or why babies are soothed by rocking?  According to Stephen Porges, the autonomic nervous system consists of three primary […]

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Quiet Parenting

I recently spent a large amount of time with one of my favorite people on earth, my 95-year-old grandmother. In her thirties, she had a tumor removed from her thyroid, […]

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What We Can Learn From Special Needs Parents

Angela Schwindt is credited for these wise words, “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”  I think most […]

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Repairing Traumatic Moments

Let’s just be honest, most of us experience the feeling of overwhelm more than we want to admit. There is simply too much stimulation in our world: too much to […]

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