Grandparents and boundaries: help that comes with an opinion
Grandma minds the children three times a week and has a view on everything. How to stay grateful without handing over your role as a parent, and how to tell rules from…
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Parenthood as a transition and as a relationship. Posts on how patterns pass down, what a child needs, and why "good enough" really is enough.
The favourite child: a quiet inequality in the family
“I love you all the same” is what nearly every parent says. Research shows otherwise, and both pay a price: the child who was not chosen and the one who was.
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Back from parental leave: who you are now in the team and at home
When you return from maternity or parental leave, you return to two systems that have both moved — the team and the home. What happens to identity, guilt and belonging.
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Co-parenting after separation: how to stay a team when you are no longer a couple
How to separate the partner role from the parent role, which agreements hold, what parallel parenting is in high conflict, and what never to do to your child.
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Leaving home: how a parent prepares for the empty room
A child rarely leaves in a single day — and a parent doesn't say goodbye all at once either. On grief before the leaving, handing things over in the last year, the…
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How to tell your children that their parents are separating
A concrete script for a hard conversation: what to agree on beforehand, what your child absolutely needs to hear, and how to say it to a preschooler, a schoolchild and a teenager.
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Loneliness in parents of young children: never alone and lonely all the same
With a small child you are never alone, yet you can be very lonely. Why the old circle drifts away, how mothers and fathers experience it, and what you can do this…
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How to talk to your teenager about mental health
Conversations with a teenager about mental health don't happen at the table, but in the car and in the bathroom doorway. What to say when they arrive with a self-diagnosis, how to…
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When a teenager goes quiet: how family therapy opens the conversation
When a teenager's silence is a normal part of growing up and when it signals distress: why they go quiet, what we parents get wrong out of worry, and how therapy opens…
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The empty nest: when the children leave and two strangers remain
The children leave and two strangers are left in the house. Why the grief is legitimate, why the relationship can even improve, and what you need for that.
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