As you explore the list below, keep in mind that there is a lot of overlap in these topics.
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10 Traits of Highly Sensitive Children
How the Two Great Choices Approach Prevents Power Struggles
The Cheat Sheet: Key Scripts and Strategies
Your Child is Not a Sociopath: Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do
How to Not Let Your Big Reactor Suck All the Life Out of Your Family
Anxiety in Sensitive Kids: Explained
Not-So-Tiny Victories From the Trenches
False Facts from the Parenting Industrial Complex
Don’t Give Up On Important Limits So Easily (A story about sleep)
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom
My Process for Solving Childrearing Challenges
My Roadmap for Solving Childrearing Challenges
Highly Sensitive Children/Big Reactors/Emotional Regulation
10 Traits of Highly Sensitive Children (FREE)
Understanding and Supporting Highly Sensitive Children (HSCs)
You Are Not A Helicopter Parent. You Are Your Child's Emotional Support Parent
How To Support Vs. Enable Your Highly Sensitive Child
When Less is So Much More In Supporting Your Big Reactor
Your Child is Not a Sociopath: Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected (FREE)
Teaching Without Triggering: How to give corrections to kids who can’t tolerate not being “right”
How to Be a Gentle Parent With A Big Reactor
From Inflexible to Adaptable: A Case from the Trenches
Separation Anxiety: The Surprising Strategy that Relieves A Child’s Stress
When Trying to Always Makes Your Child Happy Makes Them (And You!) Unhappy (FREE)
When Your Child Has a Pessimistic Outlook
Is Your Child Masking or Adapting?
Demand Avoidance: When Kids Vehemently And Consistently Resist Directions
"This Is the WORST DAY EVER!" When one minor incident upends the entire day
Negative Self-Talk: What it means and what you can do
Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with Schools to Help Kids Get Through Tasks and Transitions
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
Highly Sensitive Children: Is there a sensory piece of the puzzle?
Perfectionism: Why it happens and what you can do
Sore Losers: How to help them cope with competition
How to Build resilience in Children who have a low Tolerance for Frustration
How to Support Children Who Struggle with Self-Consciousness and Feel More Easily Slighted
How to Help Inflexible Kids Be More Adaptable
Slow-to-Warm-Up Kids: How to Support Children Who are Cautious About New People and Experiences
How to Help Kids with Emotional Regulation
YOU DO IT!: When Your Child Demands You Do Things For Them That They Can Do Themselves
How The Lack of Limits Makes Life So Exhausting--For Parents and Kids
When Less Is So Much More In Supporting Your Big Reactor
The Trouble With Transitions: Why They Are So Hard For Some Kids And How To Help
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents
How to Help Kids Navigate Social Challenges
How to Help Avoidant Kids take on Challenges and Work Through Fears
How to Teach Lessons to Kids Who Can’t Tolerate Corrections
When Not to Apologize to Your Child
When Not to Give Choices: Hint-When Your Child is Spiraling Out of Control
Stop Working So Hard to Calm Your Kids
How to Help Avoidant Kids take on Challenges and Work Through Fears
5 Ways to Help Hesitant Kids Try New Things
How to Support Kids When They’re Spiraling Out of Control
Why Not to Force Your Child to Make Eye Contact
When Not to Apologize to Your Child
4 Key Insights and Strategies for Responding to Your Big Reactor
When Visiting with Friends and Family is More Stressful than Joyful With Your Big Reactor
When Cheerleading is Paralyzing, Not Motivating to Your Child
"Mommy, You Are A Toilethead!" Why Not to Take Your Child's Words and Actions At Face Value
“I SAID I WANT THE RED BOWL!” Responding to Irrational Behavior
Dealing with Demanding Behavior
Struggling With a Child Who is Inflexible and Makes Unreasonable, Irrational Demands?
Establishing “Just Right” Expectations: The key to supporting versus enabling your big reactor
Limit-Setting With Love/Preventing Power Struggles/Cooperation
How the Two Great Choices Approach Prevents Power Struggles (FREE)
A Roadmap to Setting Limits with Love
The "Have-To": A simple strategy to prevent power struggles
The Cheat Sheet: Key Phrases and Strategies from the Trenches
When Setting Limits Gets Physical
He’s Going To Take His Pound of Flesh: When Your Child Demands to Equalize
How to Set Limits with the Fierce and Feisty: Case from the trenches
How to Balance Establishing Routines with Helping Kids Be Flexible
When Giving “One More Chance” Backfires
Stop Trying to Make Your Kids Cooperate
When Not to Apologize to Your Child
When Not to Give Choices: Hint-When Your Child is Spiraling Out of Control
Stop Working So Hard to Calm Your Kids
“I Don’t Like the Choices You’re Choicing Me!” How to Set Clear, Enforceable Limits…with Love
Your Child is Strategic, Not Manipulative
Your Child Isn’t Misbehaving on Purpose
Limits are Only as Effective as Your Ability to Implement Them
Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful
When It’s Not Okay to Say “Okay”
Stop Trying to Control Your Child
YOU DO IT!: When Your Child Demands You Do Things For Them That They Can Do Themselves
Demand Avoidance: When Kids Vehemently And Consistently Resist Directions
How The Lack of Limits Makes Life So Exhausting--For Parents and Kids
The Trouble With Transitions: Why They Are So Hard For Some Kids And How To Help
It's Time to Stop Choosing Your Battles: No need to be at war with your child
Establishing “Just Right” Expectations: The key to supporting versus enabling your big reactor
Don’t Give Up On Important Limits So Easily (A story about sleep)
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom
Aggression
Why Kids Bite and Why Punishment Doesn’t Work
When Setting Limits Gets Physical
"Mommy, You Are A Toilethead!" Why Not to Take Your Child's Words and Actions At Face Value
Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful
Why Punishment Doesn’t Stop Aggressive Behavior
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom (FREE)
Building Resilience and Frustration Tolerance
Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with Schools to Help Kids Get Through Tasks and Transitions
Key Steps to Building Resilience
When Not To Let Your Child Quit
How to Help Avoidant Kids take on Challenges and Work Through Fears
5 Ways to Help Hesitant Kids Try New Things
How to Build resilience in Children who have a low Tolerance for Frustration
When Cheerleading is Paralyzing, Not Motivating to Your Child
Separation Anxiety: The Surprising Strategy that Relieves A Child’s Stress
Challenging Behaviors
When Kids Act Like Dictators: What it means and what to do
Stopping Sass and Rudeness (FREE)
Why Kids Bite and Why Punishment Doesn’t Work
Your Child is Not a Sociopath: Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected (FREE)
When Setting Limits Gets Physical
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom
How to Support Kids When They’re Spiraling Out of Control
How to Set Limits with the Fierce and Feisty: Case from the trenches
Separation Anxiety: The Surprising Strategy that Relieves A Child’s Stress
When Children Lie: What it means and how to teach about telling the truth
Why Kids Are Superstars at School and “Terrors” at Home
Public Displays of Disaster: What to do when your child loses it outside the home
Negative Self-Talk: What it means and what you can do
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
"Go Away Daddy! Mommy Reads to Me!" How to Deal with Parental Preferences
Struggling With a Child Who is Inflexible and Makes Unreasonable, Irrational Demands?
Teaching Kids that Fair is Not Equal
Your Child is Strategic, Not Manipulative
Your Child Isn’t Misbehaving on Purpose
"Mommy, You Are A Toilethead!" Why Not to Take Your Child's Words and Actions At Face Value
Why Kids Are Superstars at School and “Terrors” at Home
Your Child is Not a Sociopath: Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected
“I SAID I WANT THE RED BOWL!” Responding to Irrational Behavior
Sore Losers: How to help them cope with competition
How to Build resilience in Children who have a low Tolerance for Frustration
Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful
Why Punishment Doesn’t Stop Aggressive Behavior
How to Support Children Who Struggle with Self-Consciousness and Feel More Easily Slighted
Perfectionism: Why it happens and what you can do
Regression: Why children take steps backwards in their development and what you can do
Just Say “No” to Threats Part 2: What to do when your child is the one using intimidation
Dealing with Demanding Behavior
Mealtime Challenges
How to End Mealtime Madness Part 2: No more dessert battles
Parental Self-Control/Regulation
When Parents Disagree: How to get on the same page without anyone “winning” or “losing”
Your Child Needs You to do Hard Things
When Cheerleading is Paralyzing, Not Motivating to Your Child
When Trying to Always Makes Your Child Happy Makes Them (And You!) Unhappy
Your Child Needs You to Be Responsive, Not Reactive
How parents collaborate to set clear and effective limits
Key Mindshifts and Guiding Principles for More Positive Parenting
Responsive vs Reactive Parenting: It Makes All the Difference
What Your Child Really Needs: Lessons from my own parenting journey
Managing Your Own Emotions: The Key to Positive, Effective Parenting
Happy Children Aren’t Always Happy: 10 Pivotal Parenting Pitfalls and How to Prevent Them
It's Time to Stop Choosing Your Battles: No need to be at war with your child
9 Principles for More Positive Parenting
7 Common Parenting Strategies That Backfire and How to Avoid Them
Potty Learning
Go with the Flow: Preventing the Perils of Potty Training
School- Related Issues
Tips for Helping Your Child Start School With Confidence
Separation Anxiety: The Surprising Strategy that Relieves A Child’s Stress
Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with Schools to Help Kids Get Through Tasks and Transitions
Why Kids Are Superstars at School and “Terrors” at Home
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom (FREE)
Sibling Issues
Preparing Your Older Child for the Arrival of a New Baby
“When Is He Going Back in Your Belly?” How to Help Older Siblings Adjust to the New Baby
Why Can’t You All Just Get Along? How to deal with sibling conflict
Teaching Kids That Fair is Not Equal
SLEEP
Securing Sleep: Key Principles for Helping Your Child Become a Good Sleeper
The Beauty and Benefit of Boundaries at Bedtime
Goodnight Sleep Tight: How to help children cope with nighttime fears
How to Help Kids Who Wake Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
Solving Middle-of-the-Night Wakings
Don’t Give Up On Important Limits So Easily (A story about sleep)
Social-Emotional Development/Emotional Regulation (Also see HSCs)
Feelings Are Not The Problem: How to help children learn to manage ALL their emotions
Happy Children Aren’t Always Happy: 10 Pivotal Parenting Pitfalls and How to Prevent Them
How to Help Kids with Emotional Regulation
First Feelings: The foundation of healthy development from the start
Separation Anxiety: The Surprising Strategy that Relieves A Child’s Stress
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents
When Trying to Always Makes Your Child Happy Makes Them (And You!) Unhappy
How to Help Kids Navigate Social Challenges
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
Keys to Decoding Kids’ Behavior: Development, Temperament and Environment
Your Child is Not a Sociopath: Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected (FREE)
Pause-and-Problem-solve: A Handy Tool for Helping Children Get Calm and Cope
Social Challenges
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents
How to Help Kids Navigate Social Challenges
When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do (FREE)
When Visiting with Friends and Family is More Stressful than Joyful With Your Big Reactor
How I Reduced Unwanted Behaviors in a Preschool Classroom (FREE)
Tantrums/Managing Meltdowns (also see limit-setting and challenging behaviors)
How to Support Kids When They’re Spiraling Out of Control
Happy Children Aren’t Always Happy: 10 Pivotal Parenting Pitfalls and How to Prevent Them
Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful
Why Punishment Doesn’t Stop Aggressive Behavior
Establishing “Just Right” Expectations: The key to supporting versus enabling your big reactor