# 10 Feelings before Behaviour? Really? ♥

♥ Inspiration: Read this meme and if it resonates with you,  I invite you to read on… ♥ Insight: Something for you to ponder… Behaviour grabs our attention because it’s supposed to. All behaviour (the pleasant and the not so pleasant) tells us something about what’s happening emotionally for our child. We have to get […]

#5 Getting through a tantrum ♥

♥ Inspiration: Read this meme and if it resonates with you, I invite you to read on… ♥ Insight: Something for you to ponder… It’s not unusual when being confronted by yet another tantrum that many of us unwittingly turn the interaction into somewhat of a  ‘How-do-you-think-you’re-making-me-feel?’ fest. The trouble with this is that no […]

#4 The importance of experiencing raw emotion. ♥

♥ Inspiration: Read this meme and if it resonates with you, read on…   ♥ Insight: Something for you to ponder… We all want well-mannered, well-behaved children especially when we are in public or the in-laws are over for tea. Children need to be taught how to behave if they are to behave appropriately. There […]

#3 Behaving better than we feel.♥

♥ Inspiration: Read this meme and if it resonates with you, read on…   ♥ Insight: Something for you to ponder… For many of us, once we become parents our days are abundantly full of opportunities to ‘stretch’ ourselves  beyond that which we ever imagined possible or even necessary. Being taken to the edge of […]

#1 Are you paying attention to your child’s ‘inappropriate’ behaviour? ♥

Good, you should be…but maybe not for the reasons you might think. ♥ Inspiration: Read this meme and if it resonates with you, read on… ♥ Insight: Something for you to ponder… There is no doubt about it…behaviour gets our attention…and the bigger it is, the more of our focus we tend to give it. […]