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Helping Anxious Kids

Covid-19 has created an anxiety stew that even the most relaxed parents can’t avoid. When kids catch on to the fear it becomes an even bigger struggle to keep a semblance of normal life. Here are some tips for helping the entire family work through anxiety.

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Caring for kids during Covid-19

This isn’t the time to implement your dream of recreating Little House on the Prairie, unless that comes easily to you and helps all of you feel better. Reassess frequently, and if what you’re doing is creating more power struggles, don’t be afraid to toss it and start over.

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Contagion

It is difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a contagious calm without filling your own cup. Even as we isolate, we need each other.

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Five Good Things

A Growth Fostering Relationship is marked by the Five Good Things. Coined by Jean Baker Miller in her transformational book, Toward a New Psychology of Women. These are the qualities of a relationship that creates fulfillment and counters inauthenticity and inequity. They include:

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Call for Proposals 2019

As our 2019 Relational Summit grows nearer, we are excited to make a call for proposals for Works in Progress for our annual event on September 19-22. Relational-Cultural Theory has long had a practice of sharing “Works in Progress,” or working papers, as a way to facilitate continuous searching and interpretation and to encourage collaboration. We have allocated several time slots for sharing current Works in Progress at our Summit. Each session is 45 minutes […]

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Save the Date!

Our second annual Relational Summit happens this September, here in Bloomington, Indiana. Preliminary schedule includes a poster session, Thursday evening, some in-depth RCT explorations on Friday and Saturday, and our keynote talk on Saturday evening. Harriet Schwartz is our guest for the weekend. Harriet is the lead scholar for Education as Relational Practice for the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, and is at the forefront of applying RCT to teaching and learning. Her new book, […]

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Connecting with Imperfection

No matter how much confidence she exhibited while offering home remedies for infant constipation and baby food recipes, she struggled with uncertainty. The matriarchal totem is full of mamas making mistakes while making meaning. I’m grateful for their wisdom.

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RCT for Survivalists

What skills will we take into this unknown? If our kids will be growing up in a revolution, what do we need to teach them?

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