Courses

How To Grow A Human – The needs of young children

With
Dr 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 Episodes

Managing Anger and Eruptions

With
Dr Vanessa Lapointe

Managing Anger and Eruptions

Understanding anger in our children and what to do about it.

4 Episodes

Covid 19

Social Connection While Socially Distancing

‘We are organisms of attachment, and we’re meant to be socially connecting, not socially distancing. We need to find ways to be together right now when we’re physically apart.’

General Parenting

Co-parenting after separation and divorce

At first, it might seem like successfully co-parenting with the other parent of your children after separation or divorce is impossible, but it can be done, if you commit to…

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 doesn’t becoming a parent feel as good as I thought it would?

A lot of new parents find themselves feeling overwhelmed, alone and upset that the reality of parenting doesn’t match the myth they had believed in. Dr Vanessa Lapointe explains how…

Why you don’t need to worry if your child’s being aggressive

Seeing your child displaying or expressing aggression can be really confronting, but Dr Vanessa Lapointe says it’s a normal and healthy part of child development and nothing to worry about.

How do I make good decisions for my child when I’m really worried about the outcome?

Parenting sometimes feels like a series of decisions, and some of them can be really hard to make. David Loyst and Vanessa talk about how to work out how you’re…