Connection

Topics: Therapeutic parenting, parental presence

From strong-minded toddlers to violent teens, connection is so important when it comes to building a stronger relationship with your child or young person. Creating connection is key and works in all family settings – with birth parents, foster carers, adoptive parents and kinship carers.

Explore our resources and learn from different therapeutic models, how to build connection, defy defiance and raise your presence with your child. A holistic approach guaranteed.

Presents or presence?

How can you create a calmer Christmas in your home? Does the answer lie in presents or presence? What I'm talking about here is Connective Parenting presence, rather than the things we’re all worried about buying in time for Christmas! I talk about presence an awful...

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Gestures will help build your connection
Gestures will help build your connection

Often referred to as Reconciliation Gestures these are one of the key aspects of NVR. Increasingly I’ve been using the term relational gestures as it helps to think about them in a broader way and they are not just about reconciling.  NVR is based on actions rather than words, which is one of the reasons that these gestures are so powerful.  Gestures show your child you love them and are unconditional and considered.    

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A vision for the year
A vision for the year

Years ago I used to set resolutions at this time of year.  They were always big ones and the sort that by mid-January; I’d either forgotten about, decided were totally unachievable or didn’t believe I could achieve. You know the type of thing; going running...

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Gestures of Love
Gestures of Love

Relational or Reconciliation, these gestures help you to build, or rebuild, the relationship you have with your child. They help your child to know that you love them irrespective of any tricky behaviours that are going on, or anything else that’s happening at home. They show your child that you love them anyway.

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The Power of the Pause
The Power of the Pause

When we stop and pause and ask ourselves “what do they need right now”, we respond to them differently and it can be a phenomenal way of de-escalating a situation when we stop, pause and think about our tone of voice before we speak...

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Don't want to go there
Don’t Want To Go There
Don’t Want To Go There

On one of the courses for professionals I was running recently, someone said to me “Connective Parenting NVR is really challenging, because not only are we helping the parents or carer, it makes us reflect on ourself as well. If we want to be able to teach this...

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