Not Understanding Trauma: What Plagues All Science in Understanding Human Nature

So many see science as only the scientific method. There’s a hypothesis, tests, and then conclusions. Good science in most… Read more Not Understanding Trauma: What Plagues All Science in Understanding Human Nature

Top 5 Tools for Dealing with Children’s Emotions

In the hierarchy of emotions between parent and child, parents manage their own emotions and field the big emotions of… Read more Top 5 Tools for Dealing with Children’s Emotions

As anyone who has read Misbehavior is Growth or reads my blog, The Observant Mom, knows, I favor an educative… Read more Preschool Conflict Resolution Tool: Make a Book about a Conflict with the Child

This is something I put together to manage energy and over time helped in ways I didn’t even know it… Read more The Four Levels of Energy

As a child turns 4, they really start to grow in creativity. They have BIG ideas. They might start to… Read more When a Child Turns 4, You May as Well be Ready with Lessons About Social Behavior

It is totally infuriating to me when someone says something like “Only 20% (sometimes 5%) of students think and work… Read more You’re Right: Traditional Education Sucks

As a child nears the age of 4, they can handle rules and restrictions a lot better than before. Preschool… Read more Four Year Olds, if Needed, Can Handle More Rules and Restrictions

Someone directly solicited my input on the following conflict between children. This is from a Facebook post from someone else,… Read more For Life Skills and a More Peaceful World: A Negotiation-Based Approach to Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers