ARTICLES | Dr. Deborah MacNamara

Helping Kids Bounce Back: The Keys to Resiliency

What Makes a Parent Great?

Freedom of Expression: Guiding kids’ emotions into maturity

Taking the Lead in Sibling Conflict

The Dance of Relationships and Why They Matter

What our Kids Need Us to Understand about Aggression

Game On: Playing Your Way Through Discipline

Leading Our Kids Back To School

20 Activities for Fun and Play

What to Say to Kids? How to Stay Sane at Home?

Sorry, Not Sorry: Saying Sorry You Like You Mean It

“Say Sorry!” How Forced Sorry’s Do More Harm Than Good

When Push Comes to Shove: The Answer to Children’s Aggression

Infographic – Why Play Matters

Taming Bedtime Monsters: When Sleepy Time is Scary

Who’s in Charge Here, Anyway? Why Dominant children need parents to Lead

Sense and Sensitivity: Understanding the Sensitive Child

Why Should I Care? How to raise caring kids

My preschooler wants to marry me – should I say yes?

Growing Pains: Five Things Teens Need From Parents

Super Shy! The Protective Power of Shyness

The Emotional Roots of Anxiety

Why Kids Don’t Need Attention but an Invitation for Relationship

Why Children Need to Give their Hearts to Parents

The Gifts of Sensitivity

True Play: Why Kids Need Play Sanctuaries for Their Emotions

Infographic – The Preschooler Personality

Three Irreducible Needs That All Kids Need to Thrive

How to Cultivate Gratitude in Kids

Ten Things Teachers Need Most From Parents

Boys Need to Do More Than Cry

Steering Through Sibling Conflict Without Losing Your Relationship

How The Mother In Us Is Born

Ten Things Not To Do When a Child is Frustrated or Having a Tantrum

What Young Kids Wished You Understood About Them

Resilience: Embracing the Emotional Journey

Infographic: What Kids Worry About at Different Ages

Mama or Dada? What Do Children Say First and Why

Can a Child Be Too Attached to Their Parent?

Dealing with Bullying: What Doesn’t Work and What Will

When Play Ends and Boredom Begins

What Sensitive Kids Would like You to Know About Them

Five Things You Might Not Know About Human Emotion

What Do Your New Year’s Intentions Reveal About You?

The Surprising Secret Behind Kid’s Resistance and Opposition

Why Being Grateful Isn’t Something You Teach

7 Picture Books That Can Help Kids Learn About Feelings

What Kids Worry and Fear at Different Ages

Time Travelling – The Hardest Part of Parenting

Healing Broken Attachments with our Kids

Five Things You Might Not Know about Attachment Between Parents and Kids

When the Worry Bugs Are in Your Tummy: Helping a Child with Anxiety

How to Repair a Relationship with a Child When You Blow It

Why Tears are the Secret to Fostering Resiliency in Kids

The Vulnerability Problem of the Bully

Playing Matchmaker: Cultivating Relationships with Teachers and Adults Who Care for Our Kids

The Teacher Has My Child’s Heart

Good Fit Friends: Helping Kids Navigate Peer Relationships

@Rest: How to Satiate a Child’s Hunger for Connection

Self Esteem: What Stuck Kids Taught Me About What It Means to Matter

Making Sense of Adolescents (or anyone who acts like one)

The One Thing Every Kid Needs in their School Backpack

Morning Mayhem: Getting Out the Door with Kids

The Five Things Master Teachers Know and Do

Three Signs Kids are Realizing their Human Potential According to Age

What Kids Need Most From Parents

5 Things Parents Say to Kids That Can Turn the Tables on Their Relationship

Why Attachment Can Be Challenging With Sensitive Kids

Softening the Hardened Heart

Why Kids Whine

The Trouble with Time-outs

The Problem with Consequences for Young Children

United Nations Address for the Global Day of Parents – Parenting in the Digital Age

Helping the Anxious Child or Teen Find Rest

Why Kids Resist and What We Can Do About It

Three Things I Discovered Writing Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one)

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – The Role of Tears in Cultivating Resiliency

“I don’t want to talk about it!” Leading a Sensitive Child into Vulnerable Territory

How to Grow Caring Kids

Why Your Teen Reminds You of a Preschooler

The Surprising Secret to Raising Resilient Kids

Why Shyness is Not a Disorder or Deficit in Kids

Answering a Child’s Hunger for Connection: Why Relationships Matter

Soliciting Kid’s Good Intentions: A Discipline Strategy that Preserves Relationships

Info graphic: When Saying Goodbye is Hard – 20 Ways to Bridge the Daytime Separation

Info graphic: When Saying Goodnight is Hard – 20 Ways to Bridge the Nighttime Distance

Hardened or Hardy? Holding Onto Kid’s Hearts

Helping Sensitive Children Flourish

Bedtime Battles: When Saying Goodnight is Hard

Who Will Take Care of the Bully?

Who’s In Charge? Reclaiming the Lead with an Alpha Child

Holding Onto Kids in a Digital World

Cultivating Self Worth in Kids: What it Means to Matter

Learning a Language of the Heart

The Lost Art of Play, on CBC with Stephen Quinn

Starting School: Four Strategies for Helping with Separation Anxiety and Settling In

The Emotional Lives of Young Children

“Me-Do” – Fostering the Bias in Children to Become their Own Person

Plugged In: Growing Up in a Digital World

The Delicate Dance of Work and Play

There’s No Place Like Home

The Mystery of Magical Thinking

Guilty as Charged: Becoming your Kid’s Best Bet

The Roots of Resilience and Recovery

Building Attachment Communities and The Lost Art of Play, on CFAX 1070 with Shirley Broback

When Telling the Truth is a Bad Idea

The Role of Desire in Learning

The Miracle of Maturation

Cultivating Attachment Villages to Raise our Children In

When Peers Matter More than Parents

Parents in the Workplace and the Village that Supports Them

Separation Anxiety: When Saying Good-Bye is Hard

From Play to Personhood

Interview with Seattle Neufeld Community

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