Learn effective strategies to help your child gain confidence and face new challenges with positivity. Discover how to nurture their self-esteem and celebrate every step of their growth journey.
My Child Lacks the Confidence to Try New Things
Learn effective strategies to help your child gain confidence and face new challenges with positivity. Discover how to nurture their self-esteem and celebrate every step of their growth journey.
Can I Support My Anxious Child Without Burning Out?
Explore strategies to support your anxious child while maintaining your own well-being. Learn to manage your resources effectively to ensure both you and your child thrive.
The Power of “No” in Shaping Tomorrow
Discover how embracing the word ‘no’ can shape your child’s future, teaching resilience and empathy through the setting of boundaries and understanding emotional responses. Learn how to guide your child through disappointment and growth.
Getting my child to Listen: A Tale of Two Voices
Navigating the tricky waters of getting kids to listen is about more than words; it’s about connecting, understanding each other, and building a bond.
Beyond Talent: Grit as a Cornerstone of Childhood Success and Resilience
In a world emphasizing innate talent, the concept of grit intertwines passion and perseverance, propelling individuals towards goals. Angela Duckworth’s research suggests grit often turns talent into tangible success.
Group Therapy… Why I think it may be right for you
As we recover from the COVID 19 pandemic, many families are struggling. Children are facing challenges at school and at home – including in academic, emotional, and social arenas. While rates of anxiety and depression were already high pre-pandemic, they are now present in youth at alarming rates. Parents tell me that they are struggling with how best to help their children. Plus many parents are facing their own difficulties on top of wondering how to meet the needs of their child.
The Most Magical Tool in my Parent Toolkit
Raising children is one of the most challenging jobs, and despite that, many people feel utterly underprepared. I want to share with you one of the most magical tools in my personal parenting toolkit with my own three children.
Understanding how Emotions Function: Learn to Ride your Child’s Wave
Understanding how emotions function in humans has been instrumental in guiding how I parent my three children, and it’s one of my favourite pieces of education to teach parents when we begin treatment together. Having a framework to lean back on helps parents to know what’s happening moment to moment.
Why won’t my child listen? Reframing an age-old problem.
Why won’t my child listen? Why is he being so defiant? Why do I have to ask so many times for her to do what I need her to do?! Oppositionality is defined as the refusal to conform to the ordinary requirements of authority and a willful contrariness.