Health
Premature Babies and Music: Evidence From the NICU
The first time many parents see their premature baby is through the wall of an incubator, with monitors beeping and ventilator cycles humming behind t...
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Music Therapy for Infants and Toddlers: What Parents Should Know
Streaming Mozart for a sleeping newborn is not music therapy. Singing your child's favourite lullaby at bedtime is not music therapy either, even thou...
7 min read
Development
Sensory Sensitivity in Young Children: What's Normal and When to Seek Help
Some children cover their ears in the supermarket. Some gag when certain textures touch their mouths. Some seek constant physical movement or pressure...
4 min read
Play
How Play Teaches Emotional Regulation
Play is where children first learn to manage their emotions. When a child plays out a scary situation with toys, they're practicing how to handle fear...
6 min read
Parenting
Therapy as Self-Care, Not a Last Resort
A lot of parents treat therapy like a fire extinguisher: break glass when something is on fire. The research has been pointing the other way for decad...
5 min read
Parenting
Types of Professional Support Available to Parents
When you're struggling as a parent, professional support helps — but the menu is confusing. Therapist, counselor, psychologist, psychiatrist, coach, e...
4 min read
Parenting
Psychological Support for Parents: Choosing What You Actually Need
When parenting starts grinding you down, the first hard part is just figuring out what kind of help you need. Therapy, coaching, a class, medication,...
5 min read
Parenting
When Family Therapy Is Helpful
Family therapy isn't just for families in crisis. It can help when communication breaks down, when patterns keep repeating, when transitions strain re...
2 min read
Family Life
When a Family Needs Outside Help
Most families with young children, in the privacy of difficult evenings, have wondered whether they should be getting some kind of help. Most don't, o...
12 min read
Emotions
When to Seek Professional Help
Most parents wait too long. They tell themselves it's normal exhaustion, hormones, the season, a phase, that other people manage so they should too. B...
6 min read
Development
Sensory Processing in Toddlers: Understanding Differences in Sensitivity
Some toddlers resist certain textures of food so intensely that mealtimes become a battle. Others cannot walk on grass without distress, or fall apart...
5 min read
Development
Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorder in Children
The child everyone calls clumsy — who falls more than other children, who can't tie laces by Year 3, whose handwriting looks much younger than they ar...
6 min read
Health
Crohn's Disease in Children: Recognising and Managing IBD
Inflammatory bowel disease in children is underdiagnosed. The symptoms -- abdominal pain, changes in bowel habit, fatigue, and poor weight gain -- ove...
4 min read