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Laura: Encouraging Parents

Fed up with the shouting, tantrums or bedtime battles? Transform your parenting.

16/06/2026

Hallway floor battlegrounds. 🎒 - fed up with them?!!

If your child walks through the door and immediately drops their school bag right in the middle of the walkway, it isn't a discipline issue. It’s an energy issue.

If you caught my June newsletter this morning, you'll know that this month is all about changing the room, not the child.

When our kids are hit with end-of-term exhaustion and summer heatwaves, a multi-step process like "open the cupboard, find a hanger, hang the bag" is too much for a depleted nervous system.

Try The One-Step Drop: Place a large open basket right near the entrance. One step - drop the bag. Once they have spent some time resetting in a quiet space, they can go back and grab their lunchbox.

Check out the full newsletter via the link in the comments to read more simple flat experiments, and access my contribution to the brand new Roaming Schoolhouse Learning Library!

21/04/2026

I was in a café recently (a rare solo mission!) when the air was pierced by a toddler’s protest. The crime? A broken biscuit. 🍪

I watched the mum’s face. It was a lightning-fast cycle we all know:
1️⃣ Surprise.
2️⃣ The "Reputation Check" (scanning the room to see who was judging).
3️⃣ The "Regulation Choice" (taking a deep breath to be the anchor).

We often treat "calm" like a moral requirement—if we aren't calm, we’re "failing." But calm isn't a personality trait; it’s a physiological state. And for ADHD brains or kids navigating multiple languages, reaching that state is a steep uphill climb.

In that moment, she wasn't "giving in." She was co-regulating. She was lending her child her own nervous system until he could find his own. ⚓️

The challenge for you this week: When the "biscuit" (or the shoes, or the homework) goes wrong, try to find 10 seconds of presence before you react. Check your own internal weather first.

What was your 'broken biscuit' moment this week?

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