What to Do With Your Child During the Summer: 5 Ideas
A play therapist on what to do with your child over the summer: a loose routine that holds, ideas for working parents, and screen rules that stick.
Back to School Anxiety: First Week Guide for Austin Parents
A first-week guide for Austin parents on back-to-school anxiety: routines, rituals, sleep, teen expectations and staying connected.
Validation: Helping Your Child to Feel Understood
What validation actually sounds like with a child, and why feeling understood settles a kid faster than being talked out of the feeling.
Supporting Our Children Through Adversity and Growth
How parenting holds steady when the world does not, and what the science says about what children take from adults during uncertainty.
What to Do with Kids in Austin
Things to do with kids around Austin, plus the local parenting resources and Facebook groups actually worth joining.
Therapist Thoughts on Pixar’s Inside Out
A therapist on why Inside Out works so well for emotional awareness, starting with what it gets right about sadness.