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Setting limits

Empathic limits, how to set one, step by step, holding it, I can't let you, the car seat, either way we spend time.

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Children are the mirror of our greatest internal work.
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Meltdowns

Handling the meltdown step by step, making space, the park, the birthday, the holidays.

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Crying and tears

I truly believe crying is the cure.

Children regularly need to release their pent-up feelings. Crying is how they get back to balance.

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25 posts, by what they are about

Boundaries6

Big feelings11

Highly sensitive and strong-willed kids1

Reparenting and the inner work7

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