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This Numbed Out World Needs Sensitive People Like You

So many of us as parents today grew up having emotions like sadness, grief, confusion, jealousy, and rage dismissed or denied by the often well-intended but misguided adults raising us who never learned these components of emotional intelligence them...
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Move Your Body, Move Your Emotions 

Research has shown that dance has social-emotional benefits. When we communicate with our bodies, we are not expected to make sense of things. We just move, and this movement taps into deeper, more primal feelings. Read mo...
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Don’t Take Your Child's Behavior Personally

Have you ever been on the receiving end of your child’s angry outburst? It’s hard not to take it personally. But as it turns out, it’s not a result of poor parenting or a sign that your child is on the wrong track. It’s all due to your child’s ...
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Juggling Big Emotions

As a seven-year-old girl, I remember my grandpa coming over for the holidays and juggling whatever fruit he could find in our kitchen. He taught me to juggle using not lemons, but just three tissues. The fruit was too big ...
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Calming Spaces for Muggles, Wizards and Eight-Year-Old Girls Alike

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Time-Outs Affect The Developing Brain

Separation-based techniques, like the popular time-out approach, use what children care most about against them.
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On Peace Tents, Healing the Generations and Motherhood

Every child wants to know, do you see my light even when I’m not shining it?
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The Myth of Self-Regulation

Self-regulation is a myth. Regulation is never about the self because we are always drawing on internal representations of what we have previously experienced in relationships. So, before our kids can self-regulate, they must first learn to co-regula...
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A Parent's Guide: Meditate With Toddlers And Teens To Improve Emotional Intelligence And Resilience

Even though today’s kids exhibit elevated levels of restlessness, stress, and anxiety, only 1.6% of children in the U.S. meditate. Here are the benefits of meditation on the developing brain and how parents can prac...
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Our Kids Are Listening Even When They Don't Seem Like It

I was starting to lose hope that my three-year-old was actually absorbing anything when I talked to him about emotions or attempted to elicit empathy after he hit or kicked another in a fit of rage. But then this ha...
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