Articles
The Nervous System: The Seven F’s
Ah, fight, flight and freeze; the most common and widely known stress responses within the nervous system. Even reptilian species exhibit these behaviours, but is that the full scope of what we do as human beings? In an article by Dr Steven Porges (father of...
Talking to Children About Coronavirus
With all the concern about Coronavirus impacting us all, in more than one way; one concern many parents have is about talking to their children about coronavirus.
What does it look like?
How can we support our children emotionally?
In this article a few option are offered to support ourselves and our children.
Empathy: A Language for Parenting
Empathy is a capacity that human beings are born with. A capacity not unlike communication, learning, and building relationship; and just like these capacities, if the environment does not provide consistent examples of what this looks AND feels like in a healthy way,...
The Funnel and The Container: Co-Attunement
Parents and the world of parenting is given a false understanding of the development of self-regulation in children. From self-soothing, to calm corners and time outs; parents are led to believe that small children have the capacity to regulate on their own, and it is our job to teach them how to do this by force or persuasion…
The reality of self-regulation and its development is the complete opposite, of this belief.
The Needs Wheel
It is my hope that the Needs Wheel will help people, especially parents, to better understand the underlying drive behind behaviour…Needs lead to feelings, and feelings drive behaviour, it is the difference between meeting a need and ignoring a need that makes the world of difference in who we are able to be.
Managing the Momo Monsters
Managing the Momo Monsters. As many of you may have been made aware, a new parenting nightmare has gone viral. Fear spreads so quickly doesn’t it? The Momo challenge. For those who may not be aware the Momo challenge is supposed to be a hidden challenged...