What Young Children
Need You to Know
How to see them so you know what to do for them
Are you the parent of a cherished young child, and tired, possibly frustrated, and even doubting yourself—or them? Are you worried about their behaviour or feeling unsure of how to support them? What makes young children do the things they do? Will they ever grow out of it?
Bridgett offers parents an extraordinary bridge connecting developmental science with conscious parenting.
Joyful parenting
Bridgett believes that joyful parenting is a journey of both the head and the heart and her emphasis is on supporting parents to bring their childrearing practices into alignment with their heartfelt intentions. By expanding on their current understanding of child development she supports parents to be more mindful about their parenting choices and guides them to become more conscious in their everyday interactions with their children.
Parent Child Relationships
Firmly grounded in her academic study of human behaviour and countless personal interactions with children, Bridgett shares her knowledge and experience with caring adults wanting to make developmental sense of the children in their lives. She assists parents to uncover what may be driving their children’s behaviour and makes practical suggestions to address their concerns while keeping the focus on nurturing a long term loving relationship between parent and child.
Hello, I'm Bridgett and it's lovely to meet you here! Thank you for being here, I'm so happy you are.
In the last little while I've noticed many newcomers and our Parenting with Intention - Bridgett Miller community on Instagram and Facebook is steadily gathering momentum. 🌪
Reading your comments and messages saying that you're finding what's shared here insightful fills my heart right up!
A few things about me:
✨It's not my intention to try and teach you anything new, my hope is that what you read here reminds you of what you already know deep inside but may have forgotten because of all the noise that exists inside and outside of you.
✨What I share comes through me and isn't really mine. The thoughts and ideas I share here have all existed long before I put them here. Perhaps the way I say it will empower you to hear.
✨My greatest teachers are my own children. I have two daughters and it's in trying to understand them and show up for them that I'm learning about myself and how to see people, things, and situations differently.
✨My background is in education, special education, and psychology.
✨I was born and raised in South Africa and have lived in Vancouver, Canada for almost 17 years!
✨For a while I didn't think I'd ever get married or have children! At the age of 17 I had visions of going off somewhere and becoming a nun. One day my mother casually mentioned that nuns don't windsurf - so that was a deal breaker for me! It didn't occur to me to investigate this statement any further (as google didn't exist!) and so here we are!
✨I have been married to the most wonderful man for 26 years and he, along with our daughters, help me to align my head and my heart a little more every single day. We have a ‘rescue’ longhaired dachshund, Ursula, and she is supersized. She’s the one who rescues us in so many ways.
✨I share developmental science and attachment insight around what moves children/people to behave in the ways they do. I wrote a book titled, ❤️ What Young Children Need You to Know: How to see them so you know what to do for them and I'm currently writing a new book all about ✨Parenting With Intention✨
I can’t wait to share it with you!
xo
As parents we’re naturally hard on ourselves. Perhaps that’s because somehow it just feels right to be this way as it’s a constant reminder that there’s always room for improvement. I mean, it just wouldn’t feel right to kick back thinking we’ve totally succeeded, would it?
That’s probably because we innately know there is no finish line when it comes to parenting.
There are no clear winners or losers as there are way too many variables that are out of sight and in constant flux.
It can be very helpful to accept that no matter how hard we try, or how much we’d love to, we’ll never get it all right and we’ll never be done. We just can’t and we need to remember this at the very same time that we also remember that by consistently showing up and doing the very best we can in any given moment, is all we can expect from ourselves. Some moments we do better than others and that’s part of the ride. When we accept this we aren’t excusing ourselves, we giving ourselves some much needed compassion and that’s essential for our long term growth and development as we become the parents and people we’re capable of becoming.
When we make self-compassion a priority, we’re well on our way to aligning our everyday actions with our heartfelt wisdom and consistently using daily intentions can help us to do just that.
If you’d like daily intentions to find you in your email box every day, sign up using the link in my bio and I’ll send them to you. Although intentions cost you nothing, they could change everything.
With love,
Bridgett ❤️