What are your thoughts about understanding boundaries? What do you think a boundary is? Often, people I work with think they are about strict rules and adhering to them. What if we reframe ‘boundaries’ to be about something else? Boundaries are about knowing about your own needs and meeting them. And being understanding and respectful…
Connecting with children
This is the key to reflective parenting, yet connecting with children can feel hard, time consuming and sometimes stressful. As parents, we often want to give our children all of our time and, because of this, we end up feeling unable to give any time. The great thing is that connecting with children doesn’t have…
8 of our children’s key psychological needs
Over the past week, I’ve been thinking about the core nuts and bolts of what our children’s key psychological needs. What do they need to thrive? I hear from a lot of parents who are worried that they aren’t doing enough of X or they are doing too much of Y. That their children are…
The Reflective Parenting Blog
Parenting is a minefield. Do this. Don’t do this. Do that. No, don’t do that. Your baby should be doing X. Your child definitely should not be doing Y. Oh wow, is your teenager still doing Z? There are loads of resources out there to ‘help’ you feel more confused and worse about how you’re…