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.
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With love,
Bridgett ❤️
Holding a grudge keeps us stuck and more often than we’d like to admit, it hurts us more than the person we’re holding it against. It takes a lot of energy to stay mad and resentful on purpose. We’re naturally loving beings and when we intentionally withhold love, it hurts. We hurt ourselves and we hurt those around us.
This is a really difficult one for many of us to get our heads around, but once we do, there’s no going back. The bottom line is…
We create our own suffering a lot more often than we’d like to think we do.
Releasing a grudge against someone who has wronged us doesn’t mean we don’t do anything about it. Perhaps a conversation around why we feel put out or hurt needs to be had. It might be that we need to look more closely at our boundaries and make those clearer to the other. It could even be that we do and say nothing about it, we just let it go. The ‘what to do’ depends on the context of the situation, the relationship we have to the other and their age and stage of development.
When it comes to our children, we must remember that they are the child, and we are the adult. For now, they are entitled to their immaturity. That’s the point of being a child, they’re in the process of growing the integrated brain they’ll someday use as an adult.
Right now, they have limited perspective and they lack life experience. We (hopefully) have all three and we need to remember to use it.
When we take the ‘high road’ in our interactions with them, we lead the way. We show them how to navigate the bumps in the relationship road by modelling how we’d one day like them to behave.
If we find ourselves struggling and stuck, we must be willing and courageous enough to look within or we’ll find ourselves withholding attention, forgiveness, and compassion from them.
Nothing good can come from that. Think about it.
With love
Bridgett ❤️