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~ Albert Einstein


From The Blog

Best Way to Support a Struggling Child

Best Way to Support a Struggling Child

How Do I Get My Child Back On Track? When kids are struggling with something or acting out, a lot of parents focus on the things that they want to get rid of (the negative influences of screens, peers, sugar, etc). Whether their child is repeatedly getting in trouble...

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Secure Attachment: It's Different Than What You Think

Secure Attachment: It's Different Than What You Think

When most parents think of “secure attachment”, we focus on the connection between a parent (usually the mother) and a child. We recently had a conversation with Dr. Dan Siegel, and the way he described attachment blew our minds. He explained that, because humans have...

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Guilt-free Parenting: How to stop beating yourself up

Guilt-free Parenting: How to stop beating yourself up

Even though I’m a novice gardener, I like to grow unusual things. I’ll show you one of them in the video below. (It is a root vegetable that I didn’t know existed until a couple of years ago! Can you guess which?) Sometimes gardening feels like a bit of a mystery to...

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When Your Child Doesn’t Do What You Want

When Your Child Doesn’t Do What You Want

When it comes to growing vegetables, I’m a novice, but I’m enthusiastic, which makes up for something.  Today, the tomatoes are teaching me about parenting and how to respond when our child does something that we didn’t plan for, or didn’t even want them to do.  In...

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Four Steps for Managing Meltdowns

Four Steps for Managing Meltdowns

Once when our kids were young, I found myself sitting on the grass in front of a grocery store while one of them had a full-on meltdown. If you have a child with big feelings or explosive emotions, you know the feeling. Here’s what happened…  The kids wanted to go in...

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