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Secure Attachment

A child without a secure attachment may have trouble forming relationships and expressing emotions. A secure attachment answers the questions "Am I safe?" and "Do I matter?". It's important for your child to feel safe and loved. 

4 Reasons Your Child Can't Regulate Alone

While it is often a hot topic and a buzzword, it turns out there are many misconceptions about self-regulation. Here are four.
3 - 5 min read
4 Reasons Your Child Can't Regulate Alone

3 Ways To Meet Your Child's Needs For Attachment And Authenticity

When a parent habitually removes affection or acceptance from a child as a means of coercing compliance, the child is forced into codependency or rebellion. The child has to work for attachment and forfeit authenticity, or fight for authenticity and ...
3 - 5 min read
3 Ways To Meet Your Child's Needs For Attachment And Authenticity

Attachment is Not a Reward. It’s a Lifeline.

In using a time-in, my boys learned valuable skills they would never have learned by sitting in a corner. Did this produce perfect children? No. But this did produce securely attached children who no longer had to make desperate bids for the at...
3 - 5 min read

Help! I Have a Clingy Toddler. Am I Doing It Wrong?

Your child is clingy, seems to be experiencing separation anxiety and is consistently acting out whenever you leave them, even if just to try to pee alone. Are you doing something wrong as a parent? Not even a little. Here's why.
2 - 4 min read

Is Attachment Parenting a Feminist Crutch?

How we parent ... It’s a hot topic, full of judgment as evident in the recent TIME Magazine cover article “Are You Mom Enough.” It would seem the media likes this thing called the mommy wars. The controversy sells maga...
- 2 min read
Is attachment parenting a feminist crutch?

What Young Children Need You to Know About Separation Anxiety

Children are born with a need for attachment and so it stands to reason that separation is a great fear for many children. This doesn’t mean we cannot ever be separated from them, but rather that we take time to understand the developmental asp...
3 - 5 min read

How To Connect With Your Toddler Emotionally While Weaning From Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is such a sacred time, and sometimes we fear that weaning will cause us to lose our connection. But that doesn't have to be the case. Here is how you can connect with your child while weaning.
3 - 5 min read

Breaking The Cycle: A Shift from Punitive to Positive Discipline

A shift from punitive punishment to positive parenting. One mama shares her story of breaking the generational cycle of spanking to connection-based childrearing.
3 - 5 min read

What's Wrong With My Clingy Toddler?

Why is my child clingy, emotional and crying and what can I do about it? Here are 7 tools for parents with clingy toddlers.
3 - 5 min read