False Red Alarms

The text message that sent Hawai’i into panic, and our own threat detection system.

Bunny Business

A Therapeutic Parent’s Quick Guide to Surviving the Easter Break.

The Dark Room

Your brain exists in the dark. When the lights are always out, the only way to survive is to keep guessing.

Excellent Detectors

How children with early-life trauma detect the smallest vibrations.

The third mode of parenting

Permissive, Repressive, and the magic bit in between.

What's next?

Did you really think you would wake one morning and not have any problems?

Lord of the lies

In any discussion about a group of kids being left alone, it won’t be long before someone mentions ‘Lord of the Flies’.

Rubber band

This last year has left me feeling like a rubber band. Stretched too many times. Holding far more than it was ever intended to support.

No bad years

2020. Goodbye and good riddance? Well, no.