Numerous studies have shown that the main cause depriving people of happiness is the lack of autonomy, the ability to make their own choices. Here’s how autonomy (and the lack thereof) affects children (and adults). Restrictions on our autonomy are the root cause of the majority of our unpleasant ...
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Impulsive Behavior as Opportunity for Connection
Feelings are messengers of met and unmet need. Unpleasant feelings, that are wake up calls for unmet needs, result in impulsive behaviors. Here’s how we can manage the behavior by addressing the unmet need it stems from. It happens (happened, and will happen) to all of us. We will ask for our ...
How to Help Your Child Adjust to Change
What does change mean for children? How do kids grasp change? And why do they react the way they react? And most importantly, what can you do to make it easier, and beneficial for their development? Changes are a major part of our lives; some even say that change is the only constant. But ...
Child Discipline: a Changed Perspective
Control and dominance are ineffective strategies to child discipline because human beings are programmed to resist it with everything that they have. "Discipline" is one of my favorite examples to the degree to which we stopped considering the words we use and their actual underlying meaning. ...
Normalizing Separation Anxiety in Babies and Toddlers
It seems like just a few months ago we could have left our little one with anyone, and she would be content. As long as her needs were met, as long as she was held, warm and had a full tummy, everything would have been just fine. So what happened? Here are the developmental stages responsible for ...
Four Months Sleep Regression – Why, and How Long
Four Months Sleep Regression hits every baby, and every parent at about four months of age. Here are the biological and developmental reasons for the Four Months Sleep Regression and what you can do to make it easier. After 10 weeks of motherhood your house is finally cleaner, there’s some actual ...