Our son is nearly three years old. He still goes through some separation anxiety when he’s without his mom. We usually put him to bed together, but the other night, my wife needed a break. So our routine began. I … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Staylistening
How Can I Handle My Child’s Picky Eating Without Disrupting the Whole Family?
Setting Limits and Staylistening Those of you with picky eaters are familiar with requests—or demands—for “something else” to eat. Rigidity around food is like rigidity around anything else: it signals a need for help. We often need to set a … Continue reading
Five Ways To Strengthen Your Relationship and Empower Your Kids
A Guest Post with Lori Petro of Teach Through Love When you become a parent, a light inside is awakened, and you are charged with the responsibility of illuminating the path for your children until they are old enough to … Continue reading
Why Offtrack Behavior is a Sign A Child Needs You: What Your Children Are Really Saying When They Act Up
A Guest Post by Emilie Leeks All children have times where their behaviours challenge us as parents. Things like hitting, biting, kicking, and snide remarks to siblings are all off-track behaviours that signal our children are having an ’emotional emergency’. In those times they need … Continue reading
9 Steps to Beat Boredom With Connection [INFOGRAPHIC]
What happens to you when your child announces “I’m bored?” Despite research telling us that boredom is actually good for children – it can help foster creativity and independence – most of us try to rush into a solution when we … Continue reading
Why Crying Helps Calm Fearful Children
A guest post by Laura Minnigerode Children’s brains are wired to connect with caregivers. And if they cry it means they feel especially safe and secure. Since a child’s limbic system works brilliantly to protect them, they will often find … Continue reading
How A Difficult Birth Can Make Parenting Difficult Later
A Guest Post by Emilie Leeks We all have challenging moments in our parenting, and how we react to these can almost always be traced back to some stored hurt feelings from earlier in our lives. We had a very difficult … Continue reading
How to Confront Separation Anxiety Supportively
Playlistening with Anca Deaconu Every Monday morning, just as soon as he wakes up, my son remembers that he’s supposed to go to the kindergarten and starts protesting: “I don’t like it, mommy and I don’t want to go; please let me … Continue reading
How Saying No to My Daughter Helped Stop Her Upset
A Guest Post on Setting Limits By Emilie Leeks Setting limits on small things is something I used to find very hard. Sometimes I feel I’m just being petty by not doing things for the kids when technically I can, but … Continue reading
Why Kids Throw Big Tantrums Over Small Things
A guest post by Skye Munro of Nurturing Connections Have you ever got home from a really crap day where EVERYTHING went wrong? You see that your darling partner has accidentally left the milk out of the fridge and you … Continue reading
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