Allison Davis Maxon, LMFT

07/23/2025

Kids are the best!

07/23/2025

Children's young brains are designed to learn by doing!
They learn best when they're Empowered to Do, Create, Try, Fail, Try Again

07/23/2025

Adam Pertman adoptive dad and leader of the National Center on Adoption & Permanency shares his invaluable insights on helping adoptees succeed.

07/23/2025

Attachment Matters!
Early attachment experiences teach us the ‘dance’ of relationship.

Early brain growth is dependent on a caregivers emotional availability and attunement to the young child's emotional and developmental needs

Co-regulation precedes Self-Regulation

Attachment and the Developing Child by Allison Maxon | Sep 11, 2017 | Uncategorized The most complex organ in the universe is the human brain. It is now clear that what a child experiences in the first few years of life largely determines how his/her brain will develop and how he/she will interact w...

07/23/2025

Kids act like kids because they are kids. Their brains are still developing, and they’re learning how to navigate big feelings and the world around them. It’s not their job to always get it right. And here’s the truth: we aren’t judged by our children’s behavior. We’re judged by our behavior in response to theirs.

When we’re able to pause, regulate our emotions, and respond with calm, even when we’re stressed or triggered, we offer our children the greatest gift: co-regulation. We don’t just tell them how to manage their emotions, we show them. In doing so, we model emotional resilience, patience, and the power of self-control.

L.R. Knost

07/23/2025

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07/17/2025

Playful Parenting!
Every time you PLAY with your child you are making deposits into their emotional bank account!
Play is the language of children!
Attachment Matters!

07/17/2025