What Causes Toddler Sleep Resistance?
The common suggestion is akin to earlier sleep training with families insisting on children staying in bed, coming up with hall passes, and so on. But what if the problem isn’t behavioural? What if it’s actually biological? More specifically, physiological?
Five Mistakes Gentle Parents Make When Disciplining Their Children
Welcome to a FREE guide to help you identify 5 of the most common mistakes made in gentle parenting and how you can overcome them.
Impact vs. Intent in Parenting
When we accidentally harm our children, we often invoke the, "I didn't mean to!" in our defence instead of providing them with the acknowledgement of hurt and support they need.
Nighttime Parenting and Attachment: A Role for Maternal Responsiveness?
The question of whether and how nighttime parenting affects attachment is still unclear. I review a study that helps elucidate at least part of this issue.
The Importance of Walking Away
Too often people expect their kids to change their behaviour as they see themselves as right. Yet we then tell kids to walk away when they are older. How can kids reconcile this when they've never seen it modeled?
Bedsharing and Later Mental Health: Cause for Concern or Not?
One article suggests a possible link between persistent bedsharing and worse mental health outcomes for children. Does it really say that? What does this data tell us and should parents be concerned? (Hint: no concern needed.)