5 Socially Safe Activities to Do this Fall
By Nadine Briggs and Donna Shea Fall is a great time of year to socialize outdoors. The weather is cooler read more…
Address the Action, Not the Person
By Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs My (Donna’s) nuclear family crew have historically not been the greatest of communicators, leading read more…
Shared Feelings Can Ease the Burden
By Nadine Briggs and Donna Shea The return to school in the fall of 2020 is so incredibly challenging for read more…
Do The Work of Friendship
By Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs Friendships don’t just happen. Well, maybe there is that occasional friendship at first sight. read more…
6 Tips for How to Spend Social Energy
By Nadine Briggs and Donna Shea We’ve blogged many times about the reciprocal nature of friendship. As part of forming read more…
WH Questions
By Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs Conversation skills are something that many parents ask us to work on when we read more…
Keeping Friendship Court?
By Nadine Briggs and Donna Shea Over the last week, I’ve had a few families tell me that their child read more…
Learning to Tolerate Distress
By Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs I (Donna) recently had an outdoor (physically distant but felt so awesomely normal) coffee read more…
Pandemic Peer Pressure
By Nadine Briggs and Donna Shea New social pressures are occurring as people are interacting during this pandemic. We might read more…
Letting Kids Feel Their Feels
By Donna Shea & Nadine Briggs Parents are faced with extremely challenging choices this fall as kids return to whatever read more…
