Narratives, Specific Situations
How to Manage Emotional Triggers in 5 Steps
Emotional triggers can revive painful childhood experiences so that we unknowingly over-react and make poor choices in the present. Here’s how to manage those triggers.
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The Specifics > Specific Situations
These posts take on a number of specific situations that families frequently encounter. We go in-depth to understand the particulars of each situation, how they present unique challenges, and what parents can do.
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Ruptures and Repair: the 4 Steps You Need to Know
All parents make mistakes, and repairing things afterwards with our kid is not just incredibly important, it can feel incredibly good, too. Here’s how…
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How to Help Your Autistic Child Undo Harmful Narratives
Because autistic kids often feel they don’t “fit in” socially, they develop harmful, lifelong self-narratives. Here’s how parents can help.
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When There’s a New Baby in the Family
Understand what older siblings experience when a new baby arrives to better help them with their feelings and troubling behaviors.
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The Emotional Impact on Kids When Parents Divorce/Break Up
A new, in-depth perspective on parental divorce/breakup: how kids can develop harmful, lifelong narratives as a result—and what parents can do to help.
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How to Have a Functional Co-Parenting Relationship After Divorce/Separation
It’s often more than a little challenging to form a functional, much less a good co-parenting relationship. Here are a few things that will help.
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Any Medical Procedure Can Traumatize Your Child
Medical procedures are often traumatic for young children, creating lifelong emotional problems. Here’s how parents can prevent this.
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What Actually is Play Therapy and How It Works
If you’ve wondered what exactly happens when therapists “do play therapy,” this post will explain it all as well as how and why it works.
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Four Fantasies Children Have About Being Adopted
How kids experience being adopted, particularly how their fantasies around their adoption create unhealthy narratives about themselves and their family.
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The Effects of Frequent Moves on Children: Rhiannon’s Story
How does moving a lot affect kids? My work with Rhiannon in therapy sums it up.
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How to Manage Anger as a Secondary Emotion in Children
Understanding anger as a secondary emotion, parents can get at the source of their child’s anger to help him manage his feelings.
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What Our Child Experiences When We Lose Our Cool
All of us lose our cool, and when we do, it’s good to know how it affects our child. Only then can we repair what has happened so that our child creates healthy narratives about herself and others.
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Egocentrism, Part 1
Little kids seem so self-centered, and it often drives parents crazy. Here’s what’s really going on.
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Egocentrism, Part 2
In Part 2, we look at how egocentrism can create unhealthy narratives in little kids, and what parents can do.
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