Dr Dan Siegel, leading the world in neuropsychiatry has discovered that much of what Bowlby and Ainsworth’s attachment theories postulated actually has scientific grounding in what the brain needs to develop optimally. To put this into every day English, our brains are social in nature and need warm, rich, safe relationships in order to grow Read More
Developmental Resources
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Brains can keep growing
Your brain is an amazing structure. Consider this: your brain has over a billion neurons and all these neurons are connected by trillions of connections (called synapses). We used to think brain function deteriorated with age like physical activity does. With advances in technology to study the brain – like MRI scanners – neuroscientists have Read More
Sleep Issues
This is a preventative intervention for parents – it may well be the best $10 you ever spend! Parents need sleep too! Children who won’t go to bed, and then won’t stay in bed, make exhausted parents. Most sleep solutions focus on only one cause of sleep problems: habit correction. When the other causes are ignored Read More
Temperament & Discipline
Appreciating your child’s uniqueness – Recognising difference Observe a group of children playing and you will see the following: some will be moving quickly and with energy, others will be sitting quietly; some will be talking loudly, others will talk slowly and refl ectively; some will be in a group, others will be by themselves; Read More
