Joy Fixes for Parents: Positive Parenting

08/07/2025

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Our theme this week - Meltdowns and Tantrums

12/01/2025

Being displaced after a natural disaster can cause kids to feel cut off from their social supports, routines, and sense of security. Enduring natural disasters can make children feel depressed and anxious, or can cause them to experience PTSD symptoms up to four years after the event (Lai & La Greca, 2020). Staying in hotel rooms or with friends or family for weeks or months on end often creates undue stress for both parents and kids.

By being intentional about connection, routines, positivity, and gratitude, parents can protect their kids from the potentially negative impacts of disaster, even when kids are not able to return home for a long time.

Kids can feel depressed or anxious after a natural disaster. Here are ways parents can help protect kids from negative outcomes.

18/12/2024

Absolutely!

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Thanks, Rae Pica Keynotes & Consulting

03/12/2024

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Thanks, Mom Seeking Coffee via The Contented Child, Child Wellbeing Consultancy

02/08/2024

Love this beautiful image from Coastal Connections OT.

12 Ways to Co-regulate with your Child

1. Lower your body position
2. Lower your voice (can be volume or pitch)
3. Soften your facial expression
4. Model deep breathing
5. Do heavy work together
6. Walk outside
7. Offer deep pressure
8. Model a preferred sensory activity
9. Move your body together (have you tried stimming as a co-occupation??)
10. Dim the lights (or rely solely on natural light)
11. Stop talking (offer communication alternatives)
12. Change your proximity (move away, move into a parallel position and minimize face-to-face confrontation, move lower, move closer but be indirectly positioned etc.)

08/07/2024

Couldn't agree more and we can't EVER get too many reminders! It's much harder than it sounds to let feelings be, don't you think?

Thanks to Eli Harwood from Attachment Nerd for this message, well said!

27/06/2024

Love this Casey Huff❤

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05/06/2024

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. 💕

22/05/2024

Absolutely!

One mom is totally fed up with the focus on winning in youth sports. ⁠
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"We are ten minutes into the second half of my kid’s basketball game, and while a handful of kids have sweated through their jerseys, my son is bone-dry and relaxing cross-legged on the bench. He has been in the game for a total of three minutes, broken up into a couple short bursts to give the starters a break. And I’m frustrated. While I understand the competitive nature of sports, I don’t think it justifies wildly disproportionate playing time for a team of kids who are just barely hitting tweenhood." ⁠

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10/05/2024

❤ Casey Huff

17/04/2024