Building Bounce can sound a little like inflating a basketball and dribbling it. Don’t worry, I am not encouraging you to dribble your baby! ;) …
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Attuning With Our Teens
Parenting teenagers has been a HUGE learning curve for me. My own teen years were hard - I often felt unseen, misunderstood, and alone. As a mom, more …
RC’s, Validation, and Attunement… Oh My!
The title of this blog is aptly named because these concepts (relational circuits, validation, and attunement) were foreign to me, even as recently as …
Attuning with your Infant
Attuning is recognizing the emotional state someone else is in and meeting them there. (1) Attunement is important in all relationships, but is …
The Importance of Attunement
Last week I was grocery shopping and suddenly heard a child’s loud yelling and wailing coming from the next aisle. A moment later I heard a frustrated …
Opportunities for Upset – Why Struggle is Good for Our Children
As parents, we want to protect our children from the hard stuff. We seek to shield our sons and daughters from the painful parts of life. We want …
Attachment Parenting Part 3: Attachment Alone Does Not Produce Trustworthy Children by Jim Wilder
In some ways, the bane of attachment parenting shows up when a parent is trying to get close and empathize with a child who cannot be trusted when the …
Attachment Parenting Part 2: Twelve Ways to Build Attachments by Jim Wilder
Attachment parenting has picked up what Bowlby discovered about attachment – creatures that attach get close to one another. Bowlby called this …
