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.
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It’s really important for us as adults to talk about emotions - how we’re feeling and how we’re managing them, so that our children learn that emotions are normal and they learn, from us, different ways of managing them....
Where do you start? I hear this a lot from parents and I get it.
When you’re struggling and feeling disconnected from your child or just don’t know what to do, where you start with making change can feel like a big thing. It can feel like the shifts are just too huge to make sometimes.
I know, you might be wondering why the heck I’m talking about gorillas, but it might not be the reason you think...
Connection is the thing that comes out so strongly in whatever we are doing, whether that is parenting our children, connecting with our partner, or with our friends and family members. When we focus on connection, things start to change.
Connection is one of the most important things we can focus on. When we come from a place of connection, whatever is going on with our children, our response is different. Whether we are just chatting to them, dealing with a meltdown or talking to them after a...
It sounds a bit odd doesn’t it? - parental presence. Surely as parents we are present. We are often around our children and in their lives, so that’s being present isn’t it? In NVR it is a lot more than that. Being present, as in their lives, is very different...
When we focus on connection, we start to change our relationships for the better. Our presence is raised with our children and our relationships improve. Our children learn that they are loved and are loveable. That for me, is the most important bit of...
There is hope! Changes Last Saturday we had a family day out to celebrate my son's birthday and it was lovely. Full of fun and laughter, and arguably most importantly, fabulous food (the chocolate pudding was delicious!). What made the day...
I'm often asked by parents how I can help them so I wanted to share with you one family's story. Struggles A year ago I started working, on an individual basis, with an adoptive family who were struggling. They have 2 young children who had experienced trauma and...