Rewards! What’s not to love about enticing or treating your child to something they love in return for their cooperation or participation? How could that be negative? We live in a time where there is …
What I Love About Waldorf Steiner Education
In July my husband and I packed up our beautiful house in Chester, said a teary goodbye to our friends and moved 250 miles to Brighton. The reason? So our two-year-old daughter could follow in my …
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Attachment: Why Your Life Story Coherence Really Matters
When I was born I spent the first 5 weeks of my life in an incubator. I must have cried as many times as babies do during those weeks, except the nurses would only come every 4 hours. When they did …
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5 Ways to Strengthen Attachment (beyond the obvious!)
Several months after my second child was born, I developed an inexplicable and totally debilitating neuralgia in my hand. Suddenly all the tools I had relied on with my firstborn and felt passionately …
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5 Ways To Encourage Cooperation
Today I saw a two-year-old child drop a piece of litter on the ground. The mother angrily ordered the child to ‘Pick that up! Now!’. The child ran off. The mother retrieved her and again ordered her …
I Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists Or Toddlers!
How Non Violent Communication can bring connection and peace to family life I’ve see it a few times on my Facebook feed – a photo of a distraught toddler pummelling the floor of a supermarket/ …
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