On May 7, 2017, USA Today featured an article entitled Mother’s Day: The Best Gifts for the Mom Who Loves Technology. Technology for Mother’s Day? While there are a variety of techno-magic gifts technologically-minded mothers (and fathers) might appreciate, the article and its underlying theme made me feel sad about the messages children might receive […]
Why You Matter
A friend recently shared an editorial from the New York Times entitled: Sheryl Sandberg: How to Build Resilient Kids, Even after a Loss. In it, Sandberg highlighted the importance of helping children develop the strength they need to overcome the many big and small obstacles they will experience in life. She acknowledged that parents, teachers […]
Yes, You Can Help Children (and YOU) Calm Through Breathing
You know the ad “Got milk?” For parents and caregivers, I think there needs to be an ad, “Got stress?” Think about how stressful parenting can be! How often do you stop to consider you may be on total stress overload from the pressures, demands and requirements of healthy parenting? Even thinking about how stressed […]
Is It or Isn’t It Narcissistic Parenting?
An article from the website Psychalive caught my eye this week, and I thought I would share some of the information I found about narcissistic parenting. I invite us all to think about this concept Referring to an article from the American Psychological Association entitled “Stress by Generations,” the authors theorize the fact millennial parents report […]
Children Learn What They Live – The Recovery Version
First appearing on ACES connection, this is a thought-provoking poem written by Tian Dayton. I think it is self-explanatory and compelling. Children Learn What They Live If children live with parents who are high, They learn that people are unpredictable and unreliable. If children live with denial, They learn to mistrust what they feel and […]
The Single Best Predictor of Positive Outcomes for Children
In my last post, I invited readers to learn about some ways memories may be transgenerational in nature. Like me, many people who learn this are fascinated by it and its possible ramifications. It can be a real game changer in understanding why we each think, believe and behave as we do. So I am […]
How We Give Power to the Past to Haunt the Present
After reading Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, by Peter A. Levine, I was struck by how the power of the past may haunt us (or help us) in the present.
Attunement: How the Brain, Mind and Body “Remember” Trauma
Something I read several days ago literally has been haunting me. While I write about basic parenting principles and approaches for Lakeside, this information seems essential for anyone who provides care both to very young or older children.
How Adults Communicate Bias to Children
A lot of attention has arisen around the topic of bias. Have you noticed? How do our personal biases affect our children? Due to publicly brewing issues of profiling, shootings, and now the ban on certain travelers coming to America racism, bias or other forms of cultural diversity are now topical discussions in families and […]
Parents, Claim Your Assertive Rights for Your Children
As parents, how often do we tell ourselves we will not parent our children in the ways we were parented? Why do we believe making ourselves that promise will somehow prevent that from happening? What makes us think we will remember a legacy parenting tactic in the heat of our parenting moment?
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