“When you rest, you catch your breath and it holds you up, like water wings…” — Anne Lamott You may have noticed TPC took a break from the podcast and the blog in August. That was an intentional decision in an attempt to practice what we preach to parents - self-care, regulation, and resilience. Sometimes, the most straightforward path to regulation is rest. We recognize how challenging even the idea of rest can be for parents, so we’ve done some research for you. Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD,...

“We keep choosing efficiency over formation. We keep choosing control over growth. We keep choosing what calms the moment over what builds the person.” -Kevin Stinehart, The Inputs Children Need I follow Kevin Stinehart on Substack as I appreciate his framework for understanding how children grow into resilient, functioning adults. His writing centers on the idea that many challenges seen in children today are better understood as the result of missing developmental experiences rather...

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?" - Jane Nelsen (author of Positive Discipline) Through the work I have done as a parent, I am fully aware that I can move into power-over parenting when triggered by my kid’s behaviors. I want to control situations and behaviors in an effort to control my own fears. However, during a conversation with a coworker around the very real harm that can be done when kids are...