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Helping little people deal with their big feelings
Genevieve Simperingham, , PP Strategies & Tools, allowing feelings, boundaries, discipline, empathy, setting limits, sympathy, tantrums, 3Young children can feel and express a lot of big feelings! Figuring out how to best deal with...
When children seem hard to please
Genevieve Simperingham, , Understanding Peaceful Parenting, allowing feelings, grumpy child, 0Often when a child is tired and their parent is caring for them, it can feel like it’s so hard...
Thank you for staying with me when I told you to go away
Genevieve Simperingham, , Understanding Peaceful Parenting, allowing feelings, anger, child won't connect, disappointment, eating disorder, rejecting parent, sugar, 0One day when my daughter was about eight, in a really lovely sweet moment where the connection was really...
Grumpy children need our sweetness and nothing else will do
Genevieve Simperingham, , PP Strategies & Tools, allowing feelings, chores, conflict with your child, not listening, parental anger, parental frustration, power struggles, requests, 12When children are upset and unsettled, they need empathy and connection before solutions or suggestions. They need to get...
The value of allowing your children to complain
Genevieve Simperingham, , Respectful Communication, allowing feelings, complaining, emotional support, 3Children who feel safe to be honest about their whole range of thoughts and feelings tend to generally feel...
3 y.o. ripping wallpaper off walls and hitting siblings
Genevieve Simperingham, , Aggression & Sibling Struggles, allowing feelings, destructive, healing through play, hitting, needs, play, ripping wallpaper, sibling rivalry, siblings fighting, 0Chloe’s question: “Hi Genevieve, my 3 y.o daughter is regularly ripping wallpaper off our walls in a destructive fashion....
Aggressive acting out is often a cry for healing
Genevieve Simperingham, , Aggression & Sibling Struggles, allowing feelings, fear, healing trauma, school, tantrum, 5In the authoritarian model of parenting, when the child acts out by shutting down, being resistant, uncooperative, extra clingy...
The freedom to feel what one feels, rather than what one “should” feel
Genevieve Simperingham, , Respectful Communication, Understanding Peaceful Parenting, allowing feelings, emotional freedom, emotional support, feelings, 0The Five Freedoms: The famous family therapist Virginia Satir, affectionately known as the “Mother of Family Therapy” has given...
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