Your Toddler’s Speech Is Delayed: When to Worry, When to Wait, and What Actually Helps
The other children at the playgroup are chatting away. Your neighbour’s two-year-old is already asking questions, telling stories, announcing opinions…
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The Toddler Tantrum: What Is Actually Happening in Your Child’s Brain and Why “No” Is Not the Problem
It started over a biscuit. Or a shoe. Or the cup that was the wrong colour. Or the door that…
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The Question Behind the Question: How to Really Listen When Young Children Talk to You
A four-year-old asked me once: “Do worms have feelings?” We were in the garden. She had found a worm, and…
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Why Your Child Lies — and What It Actually Means About Their Development
The biscuit tin was open. The biscuits were fewer. There was chocolate on a small face. And the small person…
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The Potty Training Wars: Why Everything You’ve Been Told Has a Time Limit — and What Actually Works
The grandmother was very clear about the timeline. Her children had been potty trained by eighteen months, she said. All…
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Starting School Is Not a Milestone. It’s a Transition — And Your Child Needs You to Know the Difference.
Every September, I watch the same scene play out in school corridors across the country. A small child, four or…
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Every September I Watch the Same Scene: What School Readiness Actually Means and What It Doesn’t
Every September, I watch the same scene play out in school corridors across the country. A small child, four or…
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Your Toddler Is Not Giving You a Hard Time. They Are Having a Hard Time.
It was a Tuesday afternoon. A mother came into my office looking the way parents look when they have not…
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The First Three Years Are Not About Teaching. They’re About Something Else Entirely.
Every week, at least one parent sits across from me and asks some version of the same question. Should we…
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Potty Training Without the Drama — What Actually Works and Why Most of Us Start Too Early
The grandmother was very clear about the timeline. Her children had been potty trained by eighteen months, she said. Fully….
