Despite the growing recognition of the central role of toxic stress in childhood emotional and behavioral challenges, and mental and physical health across the lifespan, we are just beginning to develop trauma-informed responses.
Finding ways to be a peaceful parent is much simpler than we make it out to be.
Urmează o perioadă încărcată din punct de vedere emoțional și am dori să venim în întâmpinarea voastră cu o nouă perspectivă asupra plânsului neconsolat și a crizelor de furie. De obicei, vacanțele reprezintă pentru noi toți o perioadă de deconectare
It’s easy to feel infuriated when your child becomes rigidly uncooperative or loses it over the tiniest, most illogical thing. But what if tantrums were actually a healthy and useful phenomenon? In this call replay with Hand in Hand Instructors
A child’s meltdown is often the quickest way to heal the upset. Distracting with food, or promises of getting another toy, allows the upset feeling to be prolonged. The child will then find another pretext later to trigger the rest of her tantrum.
“She’s so clingy,” I found myself complaining about my one-year-old daughter. “I can’t get anything done!” Almost all the mothers with babies of a similar age agree with me. We spend our days socializing in baby groups, or at other people’s
“Se ține scai de mine”, m-am trezit că mă plâng de fetița mea de un an. “Nu pot să fac nimic!” Mai toate mamele cu bebeluși cam de de aceeași vârstă sunt de acord cu mine. Ne petrecem zilele socializând
Join Certified Instructors Sandra Flear and Robin Setchko for this podcast for parents and professionals. They discuss what interpersonal neurobiology is teaching us about how early memories are formed, and how parenting can trigger the feelings attached to difficult early
For parents, neurobiology now provides insights into how our memories affect our everyday interactions with our children, and helps us understand how we can repair the damage left by our own difficult early experiences.
Parenting is challenging at the best of times, but as your children move towards adolescence, there are fresh challenges. Our relationship with them has history, we have been parenting longer and are often a little weary (to say the least),
Ah, parenting preteens, finally our kids are ready to stand on their own two feet. Our job is nearly done. Our children, as they grow into pre-teens, don’t need us so much. Right? Wrong! They need our love and warm attention, just as much now as when they clung to us sobbing on their first day at school. They need our confidence in them. They need our faith in their intrinsic goodness. They need our conviction that they can figure out this perplexing, sometimes hostile world and find their place.
You may already know how incredibly helpful Hand in Hand Parenting’s tools can be for the average family, but did you know these tools are just as effective even when families are facing highly stressful situations? Join Hand in Hand
Learn Hand in Hand Parenting tools to help handle the tears and fears that come with the new school year, and get your kids off to a great start. Join Certified Hand in Hand Instructors Marilupe de la
Parents today face many challenges that can leave us feeling exhausted, confused, guilty and isolated. For many of us, parenting hasn’t been the joy we thought it would be and sometimes it seems like our children can’t recognize all the
Recently, I took my younger daughter to her preschool after a vacation break of 10 days. This transition back to our usual rhythm, and her emotional response to it, reminded me of the many times over the years that both
Professionals in the education, mental health, and public health fields are beginning to recognize the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on children’s regulatory capacities, which in turn shape their functioning in relationships within their family, their classroom and the
Blending a family, and nurturing new sibling relationships, isn’t a simple task. It requires us to be thoughtful of each child and remember the separate, and long-established, histories they each bring with them. Since there is no one structure to
Ai visat întotdeauna legătura aceea profundă dintre frați, afecțiunea și înțelegerea mai presus de cuvinte, susținerea și prietenia necondiționată. Dar te-ai ales cu copii care se ceartă, se necăjesc sau se jignesc unul pe altul, se lovesc sau pur și