Writing on child development, parenting, and the challenges common to caregivers — written to accompany families' everyday lives.
Have you noticed how hard it is to interrupt a child who is playing? It is not stubbornness: it is the child's way of working through what they live, of feeling, and of relating to the world. A reflection, drawing on Winnicott's psychoanalysis, on the importance of play.
On adjusting to daycare, what this experience can bring to babies and to parents, and how to get through the first days.
The three stages of "saying no" described by Winnicott — and why the foundation of every "no" is a great big "yes."
Talking about a baby's crying is talking about communication. About the reasons behind crying, the myth of the baby who doesn't cry, and what Winnicott teaches us to listen for in it.
On "good enough" parents, the real toll of the work of caring, and what we inherit from the care we received.