It was late one Friday afternoon when I picked Oliver up from daycare. Usually on our way out the door, he’d head over to the basket of apples to grab a quick snack that he eats on our way home. This time, the basket of apples was empty. We hadn’t gotten out of the daycare car park before it started. The screaming, the kicking, the throwing things - the rage. Now Oliver goes to school three days a week and he was enrolled in daycare for the other two. It’s a full week[...]
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Has your kid ever behaved in a way that made you think: ‘Wow…this is feeling really intense…’ What if I told you that the behaviour you’re seeing on the outside is the result of what’s happening on the inside? And what’s happening on the inside is a response to something your kid’s brain has perceived as dangerous, threatening or some sort of challenge? You know what? YOUR KID’S BRAIN IS DOING A MASSIVE THING (and your brain too). Your kid’s brain is consta[...]
Have you ever found yourself in an unfortunate position where you’ve needed to have hard conversations with your kids? I’m not talking about those hard conversations we have when we’re not able to do our kids' favourite activities or they’re not able to have their favourite treat because we're out. I’m talking about those conversations that are heavy, that are uncomfortable and are even hard for us adults to make sense of. Often they’re conversations about disappointment, a[...]
Anger tantrums, temper tantrums, meltdowns, emotional outbursts, aggression, anger outbursts. Whatever you’d like to label them. We’ve all been there. Those moments of high energy, highly triggering, highly intensive moments of emotion that seem to happen at the worst possible times in the worst possible places. Some parents may have been there more often than others, but we’ve all been there. I’m going to bet that there have been times when you’ve responded in a way[...]
