by Grace McDonald | Jun 4, 2020 | Counselling, Parenting
Parenting is stressful, humbling, and overwhelming, leaving us feeling helpless, hopeless, and lost. Especially right now during the pandemic, causing our baseline of anxiety to be higher than usual (see Pandi Tips). And to top it off, now you are a home school...
by Grace McDonald | Nov 6, 2019 | Parenting
The Greater Good Science Centre at UC Berkeley has created a series of videos for parents that provide research-based tools to help guide you in raising empathetic, kind, independent, and thriving children. Parenting can be a tough, humbling, and puzzling, and...
by Grace McDonald | Feb 3, 2017 | Parenting
Relationships are critical to our development. The brain needs connection to develop to its fullest emotional potential. The limbic brain, in charge of emotional development, needs environmental stimulation (that’s us parents) to function well. Good limbic...
by Grace McDonald | Jan 26, 2017 | Counselling, Parenting, Tip of the Week
Parenting is tough! Here is a communication tool, called M.O.V.E., to address the immediate, emotional needs of your child. What I like about M.O.V.E. is that it gives you something easy to remember and implement when you are having a hard time with your child and...
by Grace McDonald | Jan 9, 2017 | Parenting, Tip of the Week
Empathy Empathy supports the development of emotional self-awareness. When we, as parents, regularly empathize with our kids, we teach lifelong tools to process feelings. Our job is to help them experience their emotions as appropriate to the situation. We can allow...
