Playing Our Way Through Sleepover Fears
Maybe it’s not-so-easy to have that first sleepover. But so easy to have some kind of parental amnesia! Ugh. I was immediately wondering if we were going to need to turn right back around and
Is Your Toddler Too Angry to Sleep?
Is your toddler too angry to sleep? Read on to learn how to read the signs and get a solution. By Lyra L’Estrange Does it ever seem like your toddler is just unsettled? Can’t be happy?
איך נעזור לילדים צעירים לישון?
רוב הילדים מתמודדים בשלב זה או אחר עם קושי לישון לילה רציף. כמובן שתינוקות רכים צריכים להתעורר מספר פעמים בלילה, לאכול ולקבל אישור שהוריהם בסביבה והעולם בטוח. הצורך באישור כזה ובהזנה הוא חזק יותר אם
What If Parenting Is an Emotional Practice?
Parenting is a real workout, right? You never have enough time, patience, or energy to juggle kids, work, household, adult relationships, and your own personal health and wellbeing. The children pose one challenge after another:
Here’s Your 10-Minute Tool to Dramatically Change Your Child’s Behavior
Here are your links! Learn all about the 10-Minute Tool you can use to help your child with problem behaviors. Just doing Special Time regularly helps reduce many parenting challenges, including sibling rivalry, tantrums, separation
Help My Son Stop Hitting His Siblings
How can I help my child stop hitting his siblings?
How Parenting by Connection Is Helping Families Thrive
Parenting by Connection can help your family thrive too. Whether you are trying to stop tantrums, get the baby to sleep, find the cure for whining, or end si…
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Hand in Hand Parenting teaches 5 essential tools to work through children’s off-track behavior and build the most important relationship your child will ever know. This short video and the resources below will get you
Kristan Childs
Kristan has worked with children in many capacities, from teaching preschool to teaching high school, from working as an Outward Bound instructor, to an Americorps crew leader. When she had children of her own, she
Video Tips to Help Stop Your Child’s Aggressive Behavior
A free 3-part video series to help you really understand what drives aggressive behavior in children. Are you stressed by your child hitting, kicking, grabbing, screaming, or biting? Or is your child the one who
Setting Limits Allows Restful Sleep
I could tell my 6-year-old daughter had something on her mind. She had been talking about something that had troubled her at school, and while I had listened empathetically, it didn’t feel like she had
My Story: How Staylistening Helped My Family and Inspired Me
When my daughter was born in 2010, the first weeks with her were blissful. I had a 6-hour water birth; we were easily able to establish a good breastfeeding relationship. But after 10 days at
Help for the Hard Times in Parenting
When we became parents, most of us had no idea that we would need to master the art of handling stress. Nurturing children is a job that’s best done with ample and relaxed support—several committed
A Good Cry Can Promote Secure Attachment
Most of us parents want, more than anything, for our presence to be the elixir that banishes our children’s upsets. We want our touch, our cuddles, and our sweet words to heal the hurt. Our
Setting Limits: “Do you want me to say ‘no’ so you can cry?”
When my son was almost three years old, I really wanted to attend a conference on the other side of the country. I agonized over whether or not to go. The conference was several days
Setting Limits as a Family
I was just reflecting on how much progress my family has made with the listening tools. Yesterday, I was working late, and my au pair (from Mexico) was eating dinner with my children and getting
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Parenting by Connection teaches parents 5 essential tools to work through off-track behavior and build the most important relationship your child will ever know. This short video and the resources below will get you started:
“Quit Being So Mad!”
My 10 yr old son and I can both be hot tempered, and I am a single parent. There is not another adult around to help me re-group, but there is always a listening partner,