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Start Here
If you’re new here, welcome.
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This space explores parenting, childhood, learning, and behaviour through a calm, research-informed lens — without fear-based tactics, quick fixes, or performative perfection.
Much of what I write sits underneath everyday moments: why something feels hard, why a strategy stops working, or why a child seems different in different spaces.
If you’re wondering where to begin, start with the five pieces below. They form the foundation for everything else on this site.
Your Child Isn't Giving You a Hard Time - They're Having a Hard Time
A look at what actually happens in the body and brain when children are stressed - and why "just listen" often isn't available in that moment.
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If you read only one piece to start, make it this one.
Why Children Behave Differently in Different Environments
Why behaviour shifts across home, school, lessons, and caregiving contexts - and what that tells us about safety, expectations, and relationships.
Why Hovering Parents Hurt Children's Confidence
A gentle examination of how over-support can unintentionally interrupt learning, risk-taking, and confidence building.
Breaking Generational Parenting Patterns
How culture, upbringing, and inherited scripts shape our reactions - and why awareness and repair matter more than getting it "right".
Why Consequences Don't Teach Listening the Way We Think They Do - and What Builds Long-Term Cooperation Instead
A reframing of discipline, compliance, and cooperation, grounded in how children actually learn.
You don't need to agree with everything here.
You don't need to read everything at once.
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Take what resonates. Leave what doesn't.
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This space exists to help you think more clearly - not to parent harder.