Gave my daughter her first hair cut: it’s an unintentional mullet.

Try to keep her healthy: she has pink eye.

She went to bed knowing she’s loved. And I’m going to bed know tomorrow is a new day.

But my kid will still have a mullet and pink eye. 🫠

#goodenoughparenting #perinatalmentalhealth

Accept your humanity Some children need ‘Superparents’ - the premise of Amber Elliot’s book for therapeutic parents. But striving to be the perfect parent for our child is soul destroying. Sometimes we reach a point where...

Accept your humanity as a therapeutic parent
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Your old self has no say We all make mistakes as parents. We all have regrets. We all feel shame sometimes.Give yourself permission to move on from the parent you were yesterday. In NVR the past is in the past. Mistakes is ho...

Your old self has no say in who you are now
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Alice's Umbrella Human beings learn by experience - things going well and things going not so well. It’s tempting to feel as though we need to say something to drive the message home, to speed up the learning…“No wond...

Alice's umbrella
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#nvr #nonviolentresistance #connectiveparenting #responsiveparenting #paceparenting #pace #therapeuticparenting #emotioncoaching #childdevelopment #goodenoughparenting #haimginott

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Children don't need perfection Children don’t need perfection.If we can manage safe and predicable most of the time, avoiding all forms of abuse and neglect, taking full responsibility for our parenting mistakes, then the children ...

Children don't need perfection - good enough therapeutic parenting
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Realistic therapeutic parenting Parenting is hard. Really hard. Therapeutic parenting is beyond hard. In all the therapeutic parenting advice (specific to trauma/autism/ADHD/FASD etc), one thing that’s often neglected is the small i...

Realistic therapeutic parenting
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#nvr #nonviolentresistance #therapeuticparenting #goodenoughparenting #trauma #fasd #autism #adhd #trauma #developmentaltrauma

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