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Let’s be honest, you can have the most carefully crafted strategies in the world, but if a child doesn’t feel seen, safe or understood, it’s like trying to build a house without a foundation.
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Before children can listen, learn, or cooperate—they need to feel safe.
We know this deep down, don’t we? And yet, it’s so easy to forget in the heat of the moment. We go straight to managing behav...
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Boundaries done with heart don’t distance us from children, they draw us closer.
Because when children know where the limits are, they know where safety lives.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of ...
What if behaviour isn’t the problem?
What if it’s the invitation?
You know the drill. We spend so much time trying to “manage” behaviour. The charts. The plans. The strategies. We pull out every too...
You know all the strategies. You’ve made the charts, the plans, everything you can think of to address those behaviours. But it’s not working long term, is it?
Here’s what I’ve learned: behaviour s...
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Language is how we build bridges - or walls. It’s not just what we say, it’s how it lands in a child’s body. I’ve seen this play out in classrooms more times than I can count: the same phrase can o...
In stories of old, our brave adventurers would find themselves stumbling across a hidden village in the deepest jungles, where the inhabitants held ancient mysteries and would reluctantly share thei...
Let’s be real, most conversations about behaviour are still stuck in the same old cycle: surface-level fixes, endless lists of “strategies” and a quiet sense of burnout creeping in.
I’ve spent near...
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