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The First Look: Why Your Kid Checks Your Face Before They Decide How Bad It Is

Oct 9, 2026

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4 min read

The First Look: Why Your Kid Checks Your Face Before They Decide How Bad It Is

The Curious Kid: Where Your Kid Puts Their Attention When Someone's Mean

Oct 2, 2026

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4 min read

The Curious Kid: Where Your Kid Puts Their Attention When Someone's Mean

The Bridge: How to Get Your Kid to Care About the Thing They Don't Love Yet

Sep 25, 2026

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4 min read

The Bridge: How to Get Your Kid to Care About the Thing They Don't Love Yet

The Replay Question: Let Them Say It Before You Do

Sep 18, 2026

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4 min read

The Replay Question: Let Them Say It Before You Do

The Open Loop: Why Your Kid Won't Leave a Story Unfinished

Sep 11, 2026

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5 min read

The Open Loop: Why Your Kid Won't Leave a Story Unfinished

The Gap: What Your Kid Decides Before You Come Back

Sep 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Gap: What Your Kid Decides Before You Come Back

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The Clock Forward: How to Change Your State When You've Got Nothing Left

Aug 28, 2026

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5 min read

The Clock Forward: How to Change Your State When You've Got Nothing Left

The Wrong Ending: Why Kids Get the Facts Right and the Story Wrong

Aug 21, 2026

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5 min read

The Wrong Ending: Why Kids Get the Facts Right and the Story Wrong

The Invented Ceiling: How "Too Hard" Becomes True Before They Even Begin

Aug 14, 2026

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4 min read

The Invented Ceiling: How "Too Hard" Becomes True Before They Even Begin

Growing Up With Undiagnosed ADHD: Why It Might Have Been the Best Thing

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

Growing Up With Undiagnosed ADHD: Why It Might Have Been the Best Thing

The "Don't" Trap: Say the Thing You Actually Want

Jul 31, 2026

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4 min read

The "Don't" Trap: Say the Thing You Actually Want

The As-If Frame: Talk to the Kid Who's Already There

Jul 24, 2026

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4 min read

The As-If Frame: Talk to the Kid Who's Already There

The Cue You Didn't Know You Built: How Kids Get Anchored to a Feeling

Jul 17, 2026

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4 min read

The Cue You Didn't Know You Built: How Kids Get Anchored to a Feeling

Pacing and Leading: Why You Have to Meet the Feeling Before You Can Move It

Jul 10, 2026

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4 min read

Pacing and Leading: Why You Have to Meet the Feeling Before You Can Move It

The Presupposition: The Sentence That Already Assumes the Yes

Jul 3, 2026

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4 min read

The Presupposition: The Sentence That Already Assumes the Yes

The Double Bind: The Question That Ends the Power Struggle

Jun 26, 2026

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4 min read

The Double Bind: The Question That Ends the Power Struggle

When the Questions Start: Being the Parent They Bring Their Questions To

Jun 19, 2026

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4 min read

When the Questions Start: Being the Parent They Bring Their Questions To

The Line That Holds: Why Discipline Is Something You Keep, Not Something You Give

Jun 12, 2026

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4 min read

The Line That Holds: Why Discipline Is Something You Keep, Not Something You Give

The Reframe: How to offer a different meaning

Jun 5, 2026

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4 min read

The Reframe: How to offer a different meaning

The Beginner Move: What Your Kid Picks Up Watching You Learn Alongside Them

May 29, 2026

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4 min read

The Beginner Move: What Your Kid Picks Up Watching You Learn Alongside Them

The Open Door: Why Some Teens Still Talk to You at 14-21

May 22, 2026

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3 min read

The Open Door: Why Some Teens Still Talk to You at 14-21

They're Old Enough to Filter You: Why Stories Hit Harder at 8-13

May 15, 2026

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4 min read

They're Old Enough to Filter You: Why Stories Hit Harder at 8-13

The Storyteller's Muscle: Why Your Child Needs Their Turn

May 8, 2026

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3 min read

The Storyteller's Muscle: Why Your Child Needs Their Turn

The Story That Stayed: How the 4-Step Method Works

May 1, 2026

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5 min read

The Story That Stayed: How the 4-Step Method Works

Reading a book vs. your own story: Two different gifts at bedtime

Apr 24, 2026

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4 min read

Reading a book vs. your own story: Two different gifts at bedtime

The Pause: Why Knowing When Not to Tell the Story Is Part of the Method

Apr 17, 2026

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4 min read

The Pause: Why Knowing When Not to Tell the Story Is Part of the Method

The Rhyming Name: How My Wife Was Doing Hypnosis Without Calling It That

Apr 10, 2026

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10 min read

The Rhyming Name: How My Wife Was Doing Hypnosis Without Calling It That

When You Can't Be There: What The Method Actually Builds

Apr 3, 2026

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6 min read

When You Can't Be There: What The Method Actually Builds

Your Child’s Character: Why the Same Story Gets More Powerful Every Night

Mar 27, 2026

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5 min read

Your Child’s Character: Why the Same Story Gets More Powerful Every Night

The 4-Step Method: How to Turn Bedtime Into the Most Powerful Part of Your Day

Mar 20, 2026

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9 min read

The 4-Step Method: How to Turn Bedtime Into the Most Powerful Part of Your Day

The Strategy Gap: Why the Right Strategy Still Fails If You Don't Do These First

Mar 13, 2026

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7 min read

The Strategy Gap: Why the Right Strategy Still Fails If You Don't Do These First

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Latest

The First Look: Why Your Kid Checks Your Face Before They Decide How Bad It Is

The Curious Kid: Where Your Kid Puts Their Attention When Someone's Mean

The Bridge: How to Get Your Kid to Care About the Thing They Don't Love Yet

The Replay Question: Let Them Say It Before You Do

The Open Loop: Why Your Kid Won't Leave a Story Unfinished

The Gap: What Your Kid Decides Before You Come Back

Past Posts

The Clock Forward: How to Change Your State When You've Got Nothing Left

The Wrong Ending: Why Kids Get the Facts Right and the Story Wrong

The Invented Ceiling: How "Too Hard" Becomes True Before They Even Begin

Growing Up With Undiagnosed ADHD: Why It Might Have Been the Best Thing

The "Don't" Trap: Say the Thing You Actually Want

The As-If Frame: Talk to the Kid Who's Already There

The Cue You Didn't Know You Built: How Kids Get Anchored to a Feeling

Pacing and Leading: Why You Have to Meet the Feeling Before You Can Move It

The Presupposition: The Sentence That Already Assumes the Yes

The Double Bind: The Question That Ends the Power Struggle

When the Questions Start: Being the Parent They Bring Their Questions To

The Line That Holds: Why Discipline Is Something You Keep, Not Something You Give

The Reframe: How to offer a different meaning

The Beginner Move: What Your Kid Picks Up Watching You Learn Alongside Them

The Open Door: Why Some Teens Still Talk to You at 14-21

They're Old Enough to Filter You: Why Stories Hit Harder at 8-13

The Storyteller's Muscle: Why Your Child Needs Their Turn

The Story That Stayed: How the 4-Step Method Works

Reading a book vs. your own story: Two different gifts at bedtime

The Pause: Why Knowing When Not to Tell the Story Is Part of the Method

The Rhyming Name: How My Wife Was Doing Hypnosis Without Calling It That

When You Can't Be There: What The Method Actually Builds

Your Child’s Character: Why the Same Story Gets More Powerful Every Night

The 4-Step Method: How to Turn Bedtime Into the Most Powerful Part of Your Day

The Strategy Gap: Why the Right Strategy Still Fails If You Don't Do These First

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