Child and Parent Resilience Blog - What's Coming for 2024!

Awareness and planning can go a long way in navigating the holidays with young children, creating fun and memorable experiences for everyone

Gift guide of open-ended, developmentally appropriate toys and experiences that will nurture your child’s creativity, curiosity and learning

With intention you can influence what pathways are strengthened in your child's brain, nurturing resilience and well-being.

Getting to really know your child's developmental level, temperament and interests is important to support their development of identity.

You may wonder why we are talking about attachment and connection in a blog about resilience. Isn’t resilience about self-reliance,...

Parents can nurture the gift of resilience with knowledge of brain development, repeated experience and secure attachment.

This blog post is the condensed version of my why for The Child and Parent Resilience Blog.

This blog post, explores why children often struggle to follow the rules they already know, and some strategies to encourage cooperation.

For children, crying, clinging and meltdowns can be normal expressions of feelings associated with being apart from a loved one.

Choosing Child Care: Explore the importance of Play-Based Learning, Emergent Curriculum and Positive Adult-Child Relationships in Child Care

Tips and tricks for parents to support their young child's transition to school. Practical strategies to assure a successful start to school

Setting the stage for a successful school start with social-emotional readiness. Strategies to nurture emotion awareness with young children

Tips for planning a successful vacation with young children. Consider your child's temperament, developmental level and current state when p

A Guide for Parents and Caregivers Anxiety happens when a part of the limbic system or emotion brain, the amygdala, senses trouble. When...

A Guide for Parents and Caregivers Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. Anxiety is our body’s normal reaction to perceived...

Strategies to avoid power struggles with your tween or teen and teach valuable life lessons.

Strategies to encourage co-operation and avoid power struggles with young children

Power Struggles - There Are No Winners Power struggles occur when a child is determined to have their way and the parent insists on...

The intrinsic motivation to learn about the world around us begins in infancy. My 7 month old granddaughter explores for the pure...