“Children don’t need more things, the best toys a child can have is a parent who gets down on the floor and plays with them.” - Bruce D...

“Anger is just loud hurt, sadness and unmet needs.” - Suzi Lula ‪#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV#DevelopmentalTrauma #Adoption#FosterCare...

“Play is an incredibly powerful way to learn, grow and heal.” - Bruce D Perry (The Child Trauma Academy) #Play #DevelopmentalTrauma...

“The key to fostering a connection in the face of a ‘no’ is always hearing ‘yes’ to something else.” - Marshall B Rosenberg...

“Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.” - Josh Shipp #ChallengingBehaviour #DevelopmentalTrauma #ACEs...

“Punishment & reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the...

“...NVR begins with the acknowledgement that the child is not the problem - the problem is the problem.” #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA...

Your child isn’t giving you a hard time, your child is having a hard time. NVR can help... #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA...

“Kids with a trauma history do not need more punishment, and quite frankly they don’t need more stickers.” - Dr Ross Greene...

“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.” - Bruce D Perry #Development #DevelopmentalTrauma...

Traumatised & attachment-injured children are prone to respond to authority with anger & defiance. Reward & punishment will not work with...

“Relationships matter... people, not programs, change people.” - Bruce D Perry #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA...

...the better we can soothe them when they are agitated, or support them when they are low, the better they will be able to “absorb” how...

“...rewards and punishments are worthless at best, at destructive at worst, for helping children to develop such values and skills. What...

Love grows brains... #FredRogers #Development #Relationships #RelationalRepair #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #Connection

"We’re spending all this money on mental health “but we are spending almost nothing in the first 5 yrs of life, when the brain is the...

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It’s an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the...

‪“The most important thing that parents need to understand is that the brain of their child will become exactly what the child was...

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” - Peggy O’Mara #BrookeHampton #PeggyOMara #Development #Connection...

Your child isn’t giving you a hard time, your child is having a hard time... NVR can help #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA...