Families can be an incredible source of support or of harm. In this section, you’ll find content about raising resilient kids, family bonding, coping with dysfunctional families, boundary setting, and more.
Kids with caregivers who give them permission to feel big feelings and that give them support in managing those feelings are kids with tools who are able to become adults who can regulate emotions and find resiliency in the face of crisis.
Today, I’m releasing a simple visual illustrating how empathic, attuned parenting can disrupt one common cycle behind problem behaviors at home or in the classroom.
Pre-teen, pre-adolescent, pre-pubescent, tween… Regardless of what term is used – we’ve all been there, most of us know one, and some of us are parenting (teaching, counseling, etc.) one. As the stepping stone from childhood to adolescence, this time frame can be a tough one to navigate for both tweens and for those attempting to engage and connect with tweens.
Connecting with preteens can be especially difficult. Not quite kids, and not quite adolescents, tweens deserve more credit than we tend to give them.
It’s not uncommon for adult siblings to hold very different opinions from one another about the personality of the parents they shared when they were …
Most psychological measures and scales tend to make us think in black-and-white terms, but I like how this adaptation takes the attachment style grid and …