Courses
How To Grow A Human – The needs of young children
WithDr. Vanessa Lapointe
How To Grow A Human – The needs of young children
Every day you look online and see different people’s opinions on parenting. ‘You need to teach your child to be independent’, ‘you are babying them too much’. But as Dr…
2 EpisodesManaging Anger and Eruptions
WithDr. Vanessa Lapointe
Managing Anger and Eruptions
Understanding anger in our children and what to do about it.
4 EpisodesGeneral Parenting
How attachment caregiving helps rewire the brains of traumatised foster kids
A 2005 Child Development study showed that an attachment-based caregiving approach to looking after traumatised foster children is instrumental in healing their brains. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains how and why…
How to find your way when your kid is losing their mind
It can be hard when your child is losing their mind to not jump into with them and also lose your mind. The science of child development tells us that…
How to relate to your kids so that they get that you love them
Did you know that there are six stages of attachment that all children ideally progress through in the first six years of life? Not experiencing one or more of these…
Discipline without damage doesn’t mean without limits, boundaries or growing up
Often times when people hear that children shouldn’t be given consequences or put in time out, but rather understood empathically and championed developmentally, they get worried! Usually the worry is…
Why you should do nothing when your child says I’m bored
All parents are familiar with the phrase "I'm bored". In this video I share with you why it's a great thing that your kids get bored and why you should…
What is developmental trauma and how can kids recover from it?
When you’re caring for a child who’s experienced trauma, it’s helpful to understand some of the ways it can impact their brain development. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains developmental trauma and…
How can I support my foster children with family visits?
When you’re caring for a foster child, you may have to help them navigate family of origin visits and all the big feelings that come with these. Dr Vaness Lapointe…
Children are not small adults
One of the mistakes parents often make is thinking of their growing children as though they were small adults. In this mindset, we can often, by downward extension, apply the…
Behaviour
Help! My Child Is Biting People
Parents are often horrified and embarrassed when their child sinks their teeth into others or even themselves for the first time! However, biting is actually a completely normal and natural…
Help, my child is a runner!
Dr Vanessa answers a ParentTV members question: "Our 3-year-old is a fan of fleeing. It's almost as though his circle of security spans around the whole globe. He is well…
How to find your way when your kid is losing their mind
It can be hard when your child is losing their mind to not jump into with them and also lose your mind. The science of child development tells us that…
How attachment caregiving helps rewire the brains of traumatised foster kids
A 2005 Child Development study showed that an attachment-based caregiving approach to looking after traumatised foster children is instrumental in healing their brains. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains how and why…
Discipline without damage doesn’t mean without limits, boundaries or growing up
Often times when people hear that children shouldn’t be given consequences or put in time out, but rather understood empathically and championed developmentally, they get worried! Usually the worry is…
Mental Health
What is developmental trauma and how can kids recover from it?
When you’re caring for a child who’s experienced trauma, it’s helpful to understand some of the ways it can impact their brain development. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains developmental trauma and…
How attachment caregiving helps rewire the brains of traumatised foster kids
A 2005 Child Development study showed that an attachment-based caregiving approach to looking after traumatised foster children is instrumental in healing their brains. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains how and why…
Social Wellbeing / Friendship
Do you make your child say I’m sorry?
Knowing how important it is for us to get along with others, we can become really focused on making sure our children mind their manners. This often includes making our…
5 Ways To Grow Your Child’s Social and Emotional Brain
It is one thing to know how to grow your child’s physical self, but what about growing their hearts and souls? Here Dr. Vanessa talks about the aspects of social-emotional…
How do you grow up grateful kids
We all want to grow up kids who are full of gratitude rather than full of the greeduy-gimmee’s. The most important thing to know in this is that gratitude is…
Fostering/Adoption
How attachment caregiving helps rewire the brains of traumatised foster kids
A 2005 Child Development study showed that an attachment-based caregiving approach to looking after traumatised foster children is instrumental in healing their brains. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains how and why…
What is developmental trauma and how can kids recover from it?
When you’re caring for a child who’s experienced trauma, it’s helpful to understand some of the ways it can impact their brain development. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains developmental trauma and…
How can I support my foster children with family visits?
When you’re caring for a foster child, you may have to help them navigate family of origin visits and all the big feelings that come with these. Dr Vaness Lapointe…
Education
What is a learning disability and why are they exceptional?
Dr Vanessa Lepointe unpacks some of the myths about learning disabilities and explains that, instead of the negative connotations given by the word disability, young people should see them as…
What does growth mindset mean?
Growth mindset is something being spoken about a lot at the moment. In this video Dr Vanessa explains exactly what it means in everyday life.