Boredom is one of the most important developmental experiences in childhood. It is also one of the first things to disappear when children have unlimited access to a screen. The result is a generation of kids who can no longer sit with the small, productive discomfort...
How to Stay Calm When Your Child Is Out of Control Staying calm when your child is in the middle of a meltdown is one of the hardest things parenting asks of you. It is also the most important. Here is what is actually happening in your body during these moments, and...
Why Telling Your Child to Calm Down Makes It Worse If you have ever told a distressed child to calm down and watched the situation immediately escalate, you have experienced this firsthand. It seems logical — you want them calmer, you tell them to be calmer. But...
The Repair Conversation: What to Do After the Meltdown The meltdown is over. Your child has calmed down. You have calmed down. And now there is an important opportunity that most parents either skip or handle in a way that reopens the wound rather than closing it....
The conversations your family is missing are not the big ones. They are the small ones. The throwaway question on the way to school. The unprompted story over breakfast. The strange thing your child noticed in the back garden that they would have told you about if you...
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