This to me is parental presence. Everything we do (and don't do) influencing their development, influencing their values, influencing the...

It’s tempting to compare ourselves, our parenting, our children, to others. But we don’t all experience things the same. We don’t all...

Apologies cover a multitude of parent mistakes and parent dysregulation. We all have ‘stuff’ that drives everything from behind the...

The four parenting styles are fairly well-known. Permissive (top left) is an approach to parenting where there’s a lot of warmth,...

Children don’t need perfection. If we can manage safe and predicable most of the time, avoiding all forms of abuse and neglect, taking...

If you have a teenager, or a handful of teenagers, you'll know that teenagers aren't very often pleased to see us. If your self worth was...

It takes a village to raise a child, any child, but especially a traumatised child. We can’t do it alone. We need other people who can...