Children of all ages experience strong emotions. As loving parents it can be uncomfortable to watch them struggle. You want to help them, you want them to be OK. But sometimes as a result of our own discomfort, we try to stop these emotions in their tracks. In turn we don’t allow our children to […]
Parenting a Headstrong Child Respectfully
I have wrote previously about parenting my sensitive child respectfully. Today I wanted to write about parenting a headstrong child respectfully. When you hear about headstrong children – or strong-willed, spirited, even ‘stubborn’ or ‘difficult’ – it’s often negative. My daughter is at a different space in the social and emotional spectrum. Before she could […]