Kids who are Resistant

Giving Kids Choices Within Your Value System to Reduce Anxiety and Power Struggles Are You Using Choices but Still Facing Resistance? Giving kids choices within your value system can significantly decrease anxiety and minimise constant power struggles. However, if...

Growing Parent Confidence

Navigating the Realities of Parenting The Joys of Parenting The Joys of Parenting: the connection, the many milestones of growth, the adventures, the closeness, and the enjoyment of being and doing things together. Appreciating your child’s/adolescent’s resiliency,...

The Adolescent Years: The Push and Pull

Navigating the Challenges of Teenage Independence Parents, it can shock the system if you have experienced a close connection with your kids and then suddenly feel an abrupt disconnect. Sometimes, it can feel like a pull toward connection, followed by a push for...

Reducing Anxiety and Power Struggles Through Choices

Giving kids choices within your value system decreases anxiety and constant power struggles. Have you been using choices and still finding that your kids are resisting—leading to power struggles caused by protest, pushback, or dismissal? Here are some great tips to...

Building steps towards staying Grounded

What is your non-negotiable? It is helpful to know what stresses you, being self-aware in knowing your vulnerabilities. What are the top 3 things that stress you? kids school work morning or bedtime routines teenagers: group of friends, sense of entitlement,...

The Power of Holding Space for Ourselves -Enables us to hold space with empathy for our children.

Today, let’s look at something that’s often overlooked in the demands and busyness of our lives – holding space for ourselves. It’s an intimate practice to be seen, heard, known, and understood. Instead of looking or waiting to have this from...