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“Can you give tips on how to stay connected when you feel irritable? I’m not yelling, but I’m not as respectful as I think I should be.” – Katherine In our last post, we described how to check in with yourself and shift your own state so that you feel […]
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‘Now when my daughter starts whining, I hold her. Sometimes it takes ten minutes, but then she tells me when she’s done, and goes off. It seems to ground her. It grounds me, too.” -Kelly Kelly put it beautifully — when we reach out to hold a whining child, we […]
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Happy New Year! In honor of the new year, I want to wish you peace–in your heart, in your family, and in your world. But peace isn’t just something that happens to us, peace is something we create. David Krieger, founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (the mission of […]
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“Whereas he was once the center of your universe, he has been displaced from this paradise. He is now in time out, while you coo at his tiny rival. You cannot, of course, push back the clock to a time when he, alone, was the apple of your eye. All […]
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“My almost 3 year old has been potty trained for a year. Lately, it’s been fun to pee down his heating vent in his room. This morning, he really pushed me to my limit when I came out of the shower and realized he had peed on his 9 month […]