When Parents Disagree About What's Best for Their Children
What happens when parents disagree about what's best for their children? Different ideas about safety, education, and responsibility can create deep tensions, especially when one parent wants to homeschool or unschool and the other doesn't. Exploring the fears, values, and assumptions beneath those disagreements can open the door to greater understanding without requiring either parent to abandon their concerns.
What Is Your Child Protecting When They Push Back Against School?
When a child begins withdrawing, resisting, or refusing school, our attention often turns to the behavior. But what if that behavior is telling us something about the environment they're being asked to adapt to?
Why Are We So Afraid to Let Children Quit?
When a child wants to quit something they once loved, it can bring up fears about perseverance, commitment, and missed opportunities. But stopping can mean many different things—and an experience doesn't have to last forever to have been worthwhile.
Why Do Parents Turn Everything Into a Lesson?
We want children to be curious, but when their curiosity appears, it can be surprisingly difficult not to take over. What happens when an ordinary conversation becomes a teaching moment—and our need to make sure children are learning interrupts the learning already underway?