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I Am Not Mad. I Am Feeling Mad. And There Is A Difference.

Our identity is not the way we feel. The way we feel is a state of being. Here's why that's important (spoiler alert - it affects your child's brain development), and strategies for adults and children to balance their emotions.

Raising Emotionally-Intelligent Boys: One Mom's Journey

What do you do when the world around you tells you that you are too sensitive? Do you adapt to the social norms and shift who you are, or do you hush the noise of society to listen to your inner wisdom?

Rewriting the Narrative On Terrible Twos and Tyrannical Threes

The majority of the “problem behavior” that we see in children is because we are looking through a distorted lens. Tantrums are a developmentally normal emotional release when the child’s brain feels flooded with big feelings. Punishing a tantrum cannot make a brain develop faster, but there are things parents...

Emotional Intelligence: How To Discipline A Toddler Without Time-Outs

Tantrums happen but parents can help children handle their big emotions. Here's how to discipline a toddler with a supportive, long-term approach that nurtures emotional intelligence.

Breaking Multi-Generational Shame Cycles

No one is born ashamed. It is a learned, self-conscious emotion. And, often, it is multi-generational. If we aren't aware of our own tendencies to shame, we won't notice when they get triggered. We'll just act them out onto our children, passing shame down to the next generation. This is...

Quit Pathologizing Children’s Stress

Research has shown that children who feel unsafe and disconnected cannot learn. Why is this and what can we do as parents and educators?

Time-Ins Decrease Meltdowns

How can Time-Ins decrease meltdowns in our home?

6 Ways To Decrease Power Struggles With Your Pushy Child

Decrease power struggles with your child using these 6 simple tools.

4 Ways To Guide Your Child's Misbehavior Without Yelling

There are several ways that children appear to be misbehaving when, really, these behaviors are developmental passages that help them learn how to be human. Understand why misbehavior happens, and 4 tools to guide your child without yelling.

I'm Too Stressed To Handle My Child's Meltdowns

My own emotional capacity is on E, and it makes it super hard to be emotionally available for my child during his big emotions. What do I do?

5 Therapeutic Art Activities for Emotional Health

Art can help your child release and express feelings they may not know how to process and let go of otherwise. Use these 5 art activities to navigate loss, stress and transitions and to nurture emotional intelligence such as managing big emotions.

Behavior is A Symptom, Not The Problem

Behavior is a symptom, not the problem. And when we focus solely on the symptom, the problems causing these behaviors remain unsolved, and they stack up. So, how do we transform challenging behaviors at home and in the classroom?

Make Connection a Habit

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I Am Not Mad. I Am Feeling Mad. And There Is A Difference.

Raising Emotionally-Intelligent Boys: One Mom's Journey

Rewriting the Narrative On Terrible Twos and Tyrannical Threes

Emotional Intelligence: How To Discipline A Toddler Without Time-Outs

Breaking Multi-Generational Shame Cycles

Quit Pathologizing Children’s Stress

Time-Ins Decrease Meltdowns

6 Ways To Decrease Power Struggles With Your Pushy Child

4 Ways To Guide Your Child's Misbehavior Without Yelling

I'm Too Stressed To Handle My Child's Meltdowns

5 Therapeutic Art Activities for Emotional Health

Behavior is A Symptom, Not The Problem

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