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An Empathetic Response to Sibling Fighting That Avoids You Taking Sides

Thursday, December 21 2017

My middle daughter Dody recently got her sister Toty a present. It was really thoughtful of her, but she didn’t know that Toty had bought exactly the same notebook in exactly the same color

A Playful Way to Stop Biting and Pinching

Wednesday, February 4 2015

a guest post from Stephanie Parker When my daughter was three she started pinching and biting me. I was pretty shocked as she’d never done anything like that before. I tried setting a limit and

A Journey into a Tantrum (and how to let them offload)

Friday, September 27 2013

When a child is crying we need to show that we are in this together with her and that she will cross over through pain, sadness, and anger and will arrive on the other side feeling much better.

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An Empathetic Response to Sibling Fighting That Avoids You Taking Sides

A Playful Way to Stop Biting and Pinching

A Journey into a Tantrum (and how to let them offload)