anxiety, Peaceful parenting
Is your child having a hard time right now? More meltdowns at home, tummy aches, trouble sleeping, not wanting to go to school, issues in the classroom? It could be end of the school year anxiety. Most of us parents think that back-to-school is the most anxiety...
Peaceful parenting, siblings
Is your child being needy particularly needy lately? “I can’t do it! YOU put my coat on.” Maybe you have a new baby and your older child is out of sorts? “I’m the baby! Carry ME!” (Or both!? “I’m the baby. You need to feed me!”) Here’s a quick and easy parenting tip...
Parenting Hacks, Peaceful parenting, Uncategorized
Is your child being particularly challenging? Picking fights? Melting down? Here’s why and what you can do about it. Help your child be happier and more cooperative by helping them empty their emotional backpack. Any of these scenarios familiar? Your child...
Parenting Hacks, Peaceful parenting
When it comes to our children and challenging behaviour, we often tell ourselves or hear from those close to us: He’s just seeing what he can get away with. She’s just trying to manipulate you. He’s pushing all my buttons. Terrible twos. Threenagers. “My kid is an...
Parenting Hacks, Peaceful parenting
My 11 year old daughter, Maxine, slept alone in her own room for years and years with no trouble. Until last year… Halloween 2017. About 6 months ago, after more than a year of tears and interrupted sleep, we finally started a ‘Worry Brain’ project and...
Parenting Hacks, Peaceful parenting
Recently my oldest teenage son spent a good chunk of his weekend shovelling and moving earth by the wheelbarrow-fulls for a landscaping project. A neighbour with a similar aged son took me aside to ask how we got our son to do that- did we pay him? No, I answered, we...
