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The Use of Playfulness in Setting Boundaries
How can we make what your child is resisting, fun?
Jamie Quail
Oct 24, 20244 min read
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Tips on Regulating through Hard Times
Regulation Strategies for Overwhelm
Jamie Quail
Jul 7, 20224 min read
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What You Focus On, You Get More Of
As humans we have a tendency to pay more attention to the negative than the positive. This negativity bias kept us safe when we were...
Jamie Quail
Sep 24, 20213 min read
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Slowing Down
“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.”- Patti Digh Does anyone else feel like they can get caught up in...
Jamie Quail
Jun 28, 20213 min read
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Transitions & Change: Honoring What We're Leaving Behind to Make Room for What's to Come
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan Watts As the school year comes...
Jamie Quail
May 24, 20213 min read
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"No! I WON'T Do It!": What Your Child's Defiant and Controlling Behaviors May Be Telling You
We all love to watch our children grow up, become their own person with their own unique personality. However, there comes a time -...
Jamie Quail
Mar 30, 20214 min read
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Highly Sensitive Children: Developing the Skills of Emotional Regulation
Do you have a kiddo who seems to get upset at any little thing, any given moment? What was an easy-going, happy child in the car seat...
Jamie Quail
Mar 9, 20214 min read
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Reframing Parental Support: Why it is Time to Normalize Seeking Therapy for You and Your Child
"Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live...
Jamie Quail
Feb 9, 20214 min read
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Helping Our Children Develop a Sense of Belonging
One of our basic needs as humans is to feel a sense of belonging. Whether it is our group of friends, our community neighborhood, our...
Jamie Quail
Oct 12, 20203 min read
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Finding Hope in 2020: A Formula for Building Resilience, Hope, & Empowerment in a Challenging World
How can we find hope with all of this overwhelm, grief, and fear present in our daily lives? The short answer: balancing our perspectives.
Jamie Quail
Sep 30, 20207 min read
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Jamie Quail
May 4, 20200 min read
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Discipline Looks Different in a Pandemic by Dr. Melinda Wenner Moyer
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/coronavirus-discipline-child.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZtFkSNBR14KZpTX5bvWGy9Pq3EmCMxD0YL8ZekubIcqyzB...
Jamie Quail
Apr 28, 20205 min read
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When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun, and mother, Pema Chödrön has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been...
Jamie Quail
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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Finding Wisdom in the Playroom & On the Playground
Wonder (n): a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable. One of...
Jamie Quail
Apr 20, 20203 min read
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Book of the Week:
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The authors...
Jamie Quail
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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"The Nest" Excerpt from Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin
"A nest - the bed prepared by a bird for holding its eggs and for incubating, hatching, and rearing its young - serves as a womb for the...
Jamie Quail
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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The Dignity of Daring by Gregg Levoy
Gregg Levoy is an inspirational author and speaker, whom in this article creatively shares his beliefs on taking risks, following a...
Jamie Quail
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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