Coming Home: Strategies for a calm re-entry

School days are getting longer, families are frequently paying the price. Six year olds come home from school completely wiped, having spent all of their ability to cope socially, physically, intellectually and emotionally, at school. That leaves caregivers and...

Sitting with an angry child

There’s a meme going around that’s a list of notes children have written, mostly when they are angry. They include things like this child, refusing to have a good day, and this one, an apology that would make Bob Knight proud: It reminded me of a college...

Toddler and “NO”

One of the most frequent questions we get at our toddler workshops is, “how can I stop saying ‘no’ all the time?” Caregivers worry that toddlers won’t learn how to be a part of the world without basic limits, but get weary of repeating...

Adolescents need family

In training to be a therapist, I heard a lot about adolescence being closely related to toddlerhood. They both involve a lot of changes that aren’t easy to mediate, and they focus on the dance of separation and connection. Traditional thinking in our society...

Welcome

Welcome to Creative Family Resources. Here you can find some thoughts on family, parenting, technology and most of all, human connection. Feel free to poke around, and let me know if you have any questions. There are contact forms in the pages about our...