Parenting
Balancing Responsibilities and Recovery
The honest version of parenting young kids is that you're under-recovered for a long time. Not because you're doing it wrong — because the workload is...
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Parenting
Evidence-based parenting strategies and approaches.
Parenting
Returning to Work After Maternity or Paternity Leave: The Emotional Reality
The return to work after parental leave is a milestone that most parents approach with a mixture of feelings that are difficult to hold simultaneously...
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Parenting
Postnatal Anxiety: How It Differs from Postnatal Depression and How to Get Help
New parenthood and anxiety seem almost synonymous. Every parent worries about their newborn. But there is a distinction between the universal worry of...
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Parenting
Positive Discipline: How to Guide Children's Behaviour Without Punishment
The word "discipline" comes from the Latin disciplina, meaning teaching or learning -- not punishment. This is an important distinction that gets lost...
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Parenting
Work-Life Balance for Parents of Young Children
"Work-life balance" suggests a perfect equilibrium: eight hours work, eight hours family, eight hours sleep. But parenting young children and working...
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Parenting
Why Young Children Lie and What to Do
A 3-year-old covers a stain with a pillow, then says they have no idea how it happened. A 4-year-old claims they brushed their teeth when they clearly...
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Parenting
Where to Find Support Without Judgment
Parenting in isolation—struggling silently, believing you're alone in your experience, or only sharing curated highlights—harms parental mental health...
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Parenting
When Parents Need Professional Help
Many parents struggle but manage without professional support. Some parents reach a point where managing alone becomes impossible or harmful. Knowing...
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Parenting
When Control Increases Anxiety
Many anxious parents believe that more control will reduce their anxiety. If they can just prevent all problems, control all variables, and ensure the...
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Parenting
What to Say When a Child Is Overwhelmed
A meltdown looks like a behavioural problem from the outside. From the inside, it's a small nervous system in fight-flight-or-freeze, with the languag...
8 min read
Parenting
When Children Give Up: How to Respond
Your child starts to work on a puzzle, gets a few pieces in, can't find the next one, and immediately says "I can't do it" or throws it aside. A presc...
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Parenting
The Value of Real Parenting Experience
Modern parenting culture has a strange relationship with experience. On one side, there's the expert canon — books, peer-reviewed studies, professiona...
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Parenting
Parental Values: Where Upbringing Begins
Most days, parenting decisions get made fast. Time-out or time-in. Push the broccoli or move on. Help with the puzzle or wait. The decision speed make...
8 min read
Parenting
Useful Resources for Parents of Young Children
The parenting-resource problem isn't scarcity — it's volume. There's a podcast, an Instagram account, a book, and a paid course about every conceivabl...
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Parenting
How to Find a Unified Parenting Strategy as a Couple
Most parenting disagreements between partners aren't really about the bedtime, the snack, or the screen time. They're about something underneath — wha...
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Parenting
How Your Own Upbringing Influences How You Parent
There's a moment most parents have lived through and quietly never told anyone. You're tired, the toddler has done something maddening for the eighth...
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Parenting
Why Unconditional Love Is Different From Unconditional Approval
"I love you unconditionally" gets said by more parents than ever, but what children actually receive is often something different — love that visibly...
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Parenting
Why It's Important for Parents to Trust Themselves
Almost every new parent has this experience: a small thing happens — a feeding that didn't go well, a nap that got missed, a moment of impatience — an...
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Parenting
How to Trust Your Instincts as a Parent
"Trust your instincts" is one of those phrases that sounds reassuring and unhelpful in equal measure, especially at 2 a.m. when you can't tell if your...
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Parenting
Why Trusting Yourself Matters More Than the Perfect Plan
There's a genre of parenting book that promises if you follow the steps in order, the result is a settled, sleeping, well-adjusted child. The genre is...
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