Topic
Hard times and big changes
Grief, moving, a new school, something frightening, feelings without words.
Articles
- How to Change One Family Habit in Four WeeksFamilies rarely change all at once. A four-week experiment for changing one thing in your home: choosing it, trying it, noticing what happens, and deciding together what to keep.
- What to Do When Your Child Sees Something ScaryA fight in the street, an accident, a man shouting at a woman, something on a screen. A practical guide for parents when a child has seen something frightening: what to say, what to watch for, and when to get help.
- Childhood Memories That Last: How What Children See Shapes ThemA word from a father, a look between parents, a fight between brothers, a scene in the street. Why some moments stay with children for years, sometimes for life, and how a parent can help them carry what they saw.
- Helping a Child Through Grief: Age by AgeA grandparent, a parent, a sibling, a friend. Age by age, how children may understand death and grief, what to say, and how a grieving parent can support a grieving child.
- Moving House With Children: Helping Kids at Every AgeNew town, new school, new bedroom, boxes everywhere. Age by age, what children may feel about moving house, and how parents can help them leave well and arrive well.
- When a Child Can't Say Their Feelings Yet: Naming EmotionsScreaming, stubbornness and tears can come before a child has the words. How giving a young child feeling words may help, why it is not the same as giving in, and where its limits are.
- Starting a New School: Helping Your Child Settle InNew faces, new rules, new building. A one-week experiment for parents helping a child or teenager through the first weeks at a new school, with small daily steps you can try at home.
- Why Does My Child Do That? Look Before You JudgeBefore you decide why your child, partner or parent did something, separate what you saw from the story you told yourself. A small habit that may change the whole evening.
- Missing My Life Before the Baby: Is It Wrong?You love your baby and you miss your old life: your time, your body, your freedom, your work. Why both can be true, why fathers feel it too, and one weekly hour that helps.