Building Emotional Intelligence

Many of the parents I work with received harmful or unhelpful messages about emotions when they were growing up. Maybe you did too? Messages like, ‘Expressing emotions is a sign of [...]

This Saturday, November 13th is World Kindness Day – one of my favourite days of the year! This is a fantastic opportunity to talk about kindness with kids. It’s also the perfect time [...]

Share. If you have young children, you probably say, or hear, that word about eleventy million times a day. Every time you go to a park, a playground, a playcentre, on a playdate, to a party. In [...]

I recently shared a post on social media about the language parents use when communicating with children about their emotions. In the post, I recommended that parents avoid telling their kids [...]

Earlier this week one of my lovely Mindful Little Mama members brought a post about calming tools and calm down corners to my attention. The post suggested that using calming tools for kids was [...]

The start of the school year brings with it all sorts of emotions. Nervous excitement. Hopeful anticipation. Happiness to be reunited with friends. Relief to be returning to routine and [...]

If you’re a parent, then you have no doubt witnessed some BIG emotions in your children. And a lot of the time, those big emotions can really leave you feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to [...]

Christmas can be a chaotic time for many families, and for many kids. And with chaos, come stress, right?! And for kids, stress often looks like meltdowns and arguments, and whining, and [...]

Friday November 13th is World Kindness Day – one of my favourite days of the year! If we want to raise kind kids, we need to make kindness the norm – in our families, in our homes, in [...]

Have you noticed some changes in your child’s play recently? Covid-19 has turned our kids’ worlds upside down. Their lives have changed, and as a result, you’ve likely noticed [...]