Your child will be more obedient if you treat them as a partner
Children don’t listen and won’t cooperate. They long for independence. As parents, although we try to support their development, we don’t want to lose our authority,…
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Articles and thoughts on bringing up children
Articles on early childhood development, everyday parenting situations and mindful parenting.
A child will be happy if we allow them to feel angry and stressed at times
We all want our children to have a happy childhood, but we often don’t realise that, in order for this to happen, it is precisely negative emotions, stress and…
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However difficult it may be, sooner or later you’ll have to tell your child your secrets
There are stories we don’t like to talk about, ones we try to forget so that we can protect ourselves and our children. But keeping secrets doesn’t help…
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Do you regret shouting at the child so harshly? Here’s how to help them afterwards
Our children can provoke behaviours in us that we often don’t even understand ourselves. No matter how much we’ve promised ourselves that we’ll never shout or speak in that way,…
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Don’t try to force the moral of a story down a child’s throat – it doesn’t work that way
Fairy tales give children the opportunity to resolve their inner, unspoken and unarticulated tensions. However, this is only the case if…
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Is your baby a poor sleeper? It might be down to the lighting conditions
Studies have shown that intense light exposure at the wrong time of day can cause phase shifts, that is, alter the body’s natural circadian rhythm, and thus…
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‘Mum-brain’ is a real thing, but it’s by no means only a negative influence on us
We can’t think of the right words; we can’t remember what we wanted to buy in the shop, or how we wanted to finish the sentence we’d started. It’s embarrassing. That maternal…
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Stealing is a symptom; it is something done by children who are emotionally deprived
What drives a child to steal? Desperation and an unrelenting desire to prove themselves. They long for something they cannot have,…
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Unfortunately, there’s no getting round children’s tantrums, but we can make them easier to deal with
Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid children’s defiant and tantrum-prone phase, as it is an important stage in their development. By understanding the three main reasons behind its development…
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That is why black-and-white baby books are becoming increasingly popular
During the first two months after birth, babies’ eyesight is still very underdeveloped. They cannot see faces clearly, nor can they distinguish colours…
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