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...
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...
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...
Screens are measurably changing the attention span of primary school children. Not catastrophically. Not irreversibly. But in ways that show up at home, at school, and in the way a child reads, listens, and sustains focus on anything that does not deliver constant...
What you say after a hard moment with your child matters more than what you said during it. The fight itself is rarely where the damage happens. The damage happens when the fight ends and nothing is said. The repair conversation is the simple, calm exchange that...
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