Includes Mabel’s Fables List of Books That Connect to Kids’ Hearts When we are born part of our temperament is locked in place by our genetics. However, everything that happens to us day-to-day also profoundly affects how our brains develop. In the book “The Whole Brain Child”, Dr. Daniel Siegel writes, “Children whose parents talk with […]

When you heard the words “It’s a girl!” did you have any idea what was in store? I have to admit I had a nano-moment of flashing forward to the teenage years and hearing a door slam somewhere in the distance. But mostly, I was ecstatic that I was privy to the ever-so special parent-daughter […]

I’ve noticed, through my work with families, that we sometimes have a tendency to “over-perfect” parenting and exhaust ourselves in the process. When things feel “off” in terms of family dynamics, we tend to want to overcompensate for the drop in perfection so we try harder… and harder… and often, it just makes things worse. […]

We used to think we were either born clever or born with a lesser intelligence – as if our IQ, or a particular talent we had, was set and we’d succeed or fail based on this innate, “fixed” measure. NOT SO, says Carol Dweck in her book, “Mindset”. Dweck is a professor of Psychology at […]

The saying “to give is to receive” really expresses how I feel about altruism and contribution. We sometimes think of contribution being selfless, but research shows it is highly mutually beneficial. One is contributing to something or someone outside of themselves yet getting huge gifts in return. Why is it that we want our children […]