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It suggests forward movement even when things feel constricted or blocked - [Unruly Children](https://12steps12stories.com/unruly-children/) - [Wisdom](https://12steps12stories.com/wisdom/) - [Everyday Influences](https://12steps12stories.com/everyday-influences/) - [Joy](https://12steps12stories.com/look-for-your-joy/) - There are so many times throughout the day that joy is available to us if we take notice. - [Resilience](https://12steps12stories.com/resilience/) - Providing protection and care for children in difficult circumstances is a high calling. Be alert to the special needs of children who are living under adverse circumstances. - [Be Trauma-Informed](https://12steps12stories.com/be-trauma-informed/) - As a follow-up to last week’s blog, I’d like to share about the tremendous progress being made in addressing the adversity issues that occur in childhood. In some parts of the country, entire school systems have adopted a trauma-informed approach with their students. Rather than resort to punitive measures for troublesome children who attempt to Steps to address and alleviated childhood adverse experiences included trauma-informed educational systems, communities, and those in the prison system. - [Adverse Childhood Experiences](https://12steps12stories.com/adversity/) - #post_contentAdversity in Childhood has profound consequences - [Renewal](https://12steps12stories.com/renewal/) - Spring is a time of renewal. - [Celestial Grace](https://12steps12stories.com/celestial-grace/) - [Time-Out](https://12steps12stories.com/time-out/) - My thoughts about the use of "Time-Out" with children. - [But First Get Calm](https://12steps12stories.com/but-first-get-calm/) - In favor of settling ourselves first when faced with your child's "difficult" moments. - [Night Night](https://12steps12stories.com/night-night/) - Linger a little with your children during their sleep time ritual. - [A Blank Phase](https://12steps12stories.com/a-blank-phase/) - Being gentle with ourselves during down periods. - [Stress](https://12steps12stories.com/stress/) - Two quick antidotes for stress - [Keep it Simple](https://12steps12stories.com/keep-it-simple/) - [Emotional Needs](https://12steps12stories.com/emotional-needs/) - [Love](https://12steps12stories.com/love/) - [Rhythm](https://12steps12stories.com/rhythm/) - [Helping Children's Anxiety](https://12steps12stories.com/helping-childrens-anxiety/) - [Choices](https://12steps12stories.com/making-choices/) - [A Time of Waiting](https://12steps12stories.com/a-time-of-waiting/) - [A Declaration of Self-Esteem](https://12steps12stories.com/a-declaration-of-self-esteem/) - [Bewilderment](https://12steps12stories.com/bewilderment/) - [Challenging Conversations with Children](https://12steps12stories.com/challenging-conversations-with-children/) - [Children and Early Recovery](https://12steps12stories.com/children-and-early-recovery/) - [Talking about Recovery with Children](https://12steps12stories.com/talking-about-recovery-with-children/) - When you do feel ready to talk about recovery with your children, remember to get input before you proceed. - [Suffering](https://12steps12stories.com/suffering/) - We can not avoid suffering. It is part of our humanity. Make peace with this truth. - [Word of the Year](https://12steps12stories.com/word-of-the-year/) - [Christmas Cheer](https://12steps12stories.com/christmas-cheer/) - [Goodwill](https://12steps12stories.com/goodwill/) - How do we help our children learn the art of goodwill - [What Kind of Gratitude?](https://12steps12stories.com/what-kind-of-gratitude/) - Cultivating a grateful heart in all circumstances. - [This Thing Called Time](https://12steps12stories.com/this-thing-called-time/) - Exploring the nature of time. Consider your experience. Ask children their thoughts as well. - [Getting Along](https://12steps12stories.com/getting-along/) - We learn how to compromise and how to listen in our family of origin. - [Uncertainty](https://12steps12stories.com/uncertainty/) - Helping ourselves and our children deal with times of uncertainty - [Imagination](https://12steps12stories.com/imagination/) - Allow children to enjoy their imaginative tendencies. - [Joy](https://12steps12stories.com/joy/) - [Chaos](https://12steps12stories.com/chaos/) - What to do when you have exceeded your chaos quotient. - [Our Collective Tipping Point](https://12steps12stories.com/a-tipping-point/) - We are at a collective tipping point in the growth of humanity. - [Let's Go on an Adventure](https://12steps12stories.com/lets-go-on-an-adventure/) - [Difficult Conversations](https://12steps12stories.com/difficult-conversations/) - Use opportune moments to broach challenging conversations. - [A Healthier Love](https://12steps12stories.com/a-healthier-love/) - Relationship considerations. Examining the dynamics of a healthier relationship. - [A Piece of the Puzzle](https://12steps12stories.com/a-piece-of-the-puzzle/) - Let children know they are of value. Not above the rest. Not below the pile. Capable of great contributions. Forever irreplaceable. - [Reflections on the Light](https://12steps12stories.com/reflections-on-the-light/) - The deep solace of the light reinforces the abiding symbol of hope and good in the world. - [The Serenity Prayer](https://12steps12stories.com/the-serenity-prayer/) - Exploring the Serenity Prayer and introducing children to a concept of God. - [Exploring Intelligence](https://12steps12stories.com/exploring-intelligence/) - An analogy using an octopus to share with children about the nature of intelligence. - [A Time of Air](https://12steps12stories.com/the-time-of-air/) - Reflections on the element of air in our current times. - [Choices](https://12steps12stories.com/choices/) - Exploring a balance between unlimited options and healthy limitations when parenting. - [Being Right](https://12steps12stories.com/being-right/) - Examining the choice of being right or being happy. Then shifting our need to be right. - [A Sense of Order](https://12steps12stories.com/a-sense-of-order/) - Helping children find comfort from a measure of consistency and order. - [Finding Solutions](https://12steps12stories.com/finding-solutions/) - Helping children explore solutions and learn important life liessons. - [Stay Calm](https://12steps12stories.com/stay-calm/) - How to help children handle their emotions - [Inclusivity](https://12steps12stories.com/inclusivity/) - Suggestions for helping children include the excluded - [Faulty Conclusions](https://12steps12stories.com/faulty-conclusions/) - Ideas formed in childhood may need to be addressed. At times we must look into the past in order to grow. - [Struggles in Stories](https://12steps12stories.com/struggles-in-stories/) - Using stories to introduce children to the nature and value of struggle. - [Pandemic Possibilities](https://12steps12stories.com/pandemic-possibilities/) - Many there are a few silver linings. - [Transition](https://12steps12stories.com/transition/) - A birthing process analogy during the COVID 19 outbreak. - [Now What?](https://12steps12stories.com/now-what/) - Finding our way in times of uncertainty - [Much Needed Changes](https://12steps12stories.com/much-needed-changes/) - Considerations for going forward after the death of George Floyd. - [Learning to Listen](https://12steps12stories.com/learning-to-listen/) - Listening games for children - [A Tribute to Bella](https://12steps12stories.com/a-tribute-to-bella/) - Grief after the death of a pet. How small children respond and can process. - [Mother's Day Musings](https://12steps12stories.com/mothers-day-musings/) - In celebration of mothers - [Time for Reflection](https://12steps12stories.com/time-for-reflection/) - Giving yourself and your children permission to be quiet. - [Eye Contact](https://12steps12stories.com/eye-contact/) - Noticing your ability to maintain reasonable eye contact. - [Threshold Moments](https://12steps12stories.com/threshold-moments/) - As a collective, we are living through a tremendous threshold moment. Maybe more like moments. - [Thought Diversity](https://12steps12stories.com/thought-diversity/) - Allowing thought diversity in our relationships - [Easing Confusion](https://12steps12stories.com/easing-childrens-confusion/) - Let children guide the conversation based on their age and level of development. - [Happy Memories](https://12steps12stories.com/happy-memories/) - More activities to do with young children to create happy memories. - [Changing Family Dynamics](https://12steps12stories.com/changing-family-dynamics/) - There are numerous possibilities and scenarios to consider when looking at the family system model. - [Screen Time](https://12steps12stories.com/screen-time/) - The screen time recommendations for toddlers. - [Holiness](https://12steps12stories.com/holiness/) - Examining the many facets of what we consider holy - [Family Systems](https://12steps12stories.com/family-systems/) - How understanding Family Systems theory can help families in recovery. - [Helping Children of Alcoholics](https://12steps12stories.com/helping-children-of-alcoholics/) - Suggestions for helping children break out of limiting patterns of behavior. - [Lighten Your Load](https://12steps12stories.com/lighten-your-load/) - What might we let go of in the New Year - [The Sounds of Silence](https://12steps12stories.com/the-sounds-of-silence/) - The importance of finding silence in our lives. - [Let Children Know](https://12steps12stories.com/let-children-know/) - Let children know of the joy you felt before their arrival. - [Get on Their Level](https://12steps12stories.com/get-on-their-level/) - Sit on a chair or on the floor for maximum engagement with children. - [Comfort](https://12steps12stories.com/comfort/) - What brings us comfort in tumultuous times? - [Children and Pets](https://12steps12stories.com/children-and-pets/) - Caring for a pet enhances children's nurturing capacities. - [Enhancing Ourselves](https://12steps12stories.com/enhancing-ourselves/) - How enhancing your life might this impact those around you. - [Rock Investigations](https://12steps12stories.com/rock-investigations/) - One of the more engaging activities to do with toddlers and beyond - [Resets](https://12steps12stories.com/time-to-reset/) - Initial reflections on lessons from the pandemic - [Three Calm Down Tips](https://12steps12stories.com/three-calm-down-tips/) - Three suggestions for helping your child self regulate. - [Allowing Feelings](https://12steps12stories.com/allowing-feelings/) - Children can be given permission to have all their feelings. The good, the bad, and the ugly. - [Spontaneity](https://12steps12stories.com/spontaneity/) - Sometimes unplanned, impromptu, spur-of-the-moment actions bring joy. - [Inner Knowing](https://12steps12stories.com/inner-knowing/) - Helping children develop a sense of inner knowing - [Promoting Curiosity](https://12steps12stories.com/promoting-curiosity/) - Asking open-ended questions can help encourage curiosity in children. - [Let Boys Cry](https://12steps12stories.com/let-boys-cry/) - Let's remove the stigma of outdated mandates and model healthy expression of emotions - [Every Grandparent's Concern](https://12steps12stories.com/every-grandparents-concern/) - [Recovery Language](https://12steps12stories.com/recovery-language/) - How we may need to 're-think' the words we use in the recovering community. - [Healing Patterns of Behavior](https://12steps12stories.com/healing-patterns-of-behavior/) - The benefits children of alcoholics and/or addicts can enjoy once they acknowledge and address their pain. - [The Magic of Roots and Stars](https://12steps12stories.com/the-magic-of-roots-and-stars/) - A book about overcoming adversity with the love and support of grandparents. - [The Origins of 12 Steps 12 Stories](https://12steps12stories.com/the-origins-of-12-steps-12-stories/) - The motivation and background behind my book 12 Steps 12 Stories. - [The Mascot](https://12steps12stories.com/the-mascot/) - An overview of the role of the Mascot. Understanding the behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs of the Mascot in an alcoholic or addictive family system. - [The Lost Child](https://12steps12stories.com/the-lost-child/) - An overview of the role of the Lost Child. Understanding the behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs of the Lost Child in an alcoholic or addictive family system. - [The Family Scapegoat](https://12steps12stories.com/the-family-scapegoat/) - An overview of the role of the Scapegoat Child. Understanding the behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs of the Scapegoat in an alcoholic or addictive family system. - [The Family Hero](https://12steps12stories.com/the-family-hero/) - An overview of the role of the Hero Child. Understanding the behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs of the Hero Child in an alcoholic or addictive family system. - [Denial](https://12steps12stories.com/denial/) - [The Benefits of Sober Living](https://12steps12stories.com/sober-living/) - [Surrender](https://12steps12stories.com/surrender/) - [Strength in Recovery](https://12steps12stories.com/strength-in-recovery/) - [Relapse Triggers in Recovery](https://12steps12stories.com/relapse-triggers-in-recovery/) - [The Power of the Grandfamily](https://12steps12stories.com/the-power-of-the-grandfamily/) - [A Grandparent's Guide to Video Streaming](https://12steps12stories.com/videostreamingguide/) - [What Social Life?](https://12steps12stories.com/what-social-life/) - [Communication Blocks](https://12steps12stories.com/communication-blocks/) - [Using Affirmations](https://12steps12stories.com/using-affirmations/) - [Hope and Faith in Recovery](https://12steps12stories.com/hope-and-faith-in-recovery/) - [6 Recovery Suggestions](https://12steps12stories.com/recoverysuggestions/) - [Raising Grandchildren](https://12steps12stories.com/raisinggrandchildren/) - [Handling Arguments](https://12steps12stories.com/handling-arguments/) - [Tips for Parents in Recovery](https://12steps12stories.com/tips-for-parents-in-recovery/) - [Healing the Pain](https://12steps12stories.com/healing-the-pain/) - [Patterns of Behavior in Children of Alcoholics](https://12steps12stories.com/patterns-of-behavior-in-children-of-alcoholics/) - [Rebuilding Relationships with Children](https://12steps12stories.com/rebuilding-relationships-with-children/) - [Spending Time with Children](https://12steps12stories.com/spending-time-with-children/) - [Tradition 11 on the Internet](https://12steps12stories.com/tradition-11-on-the-internet/) - [With God All Things Are Possible](https://12steps12stories.com/with-god-all-things-are-possible/) - [The Nature of Change](https://12steps12stories.com/change/) - [My Journal A Quiet Practice](https://12steps12stories.com/my-journal/) - A helpful healing tool which can inspire creativity and self reflection in your children. (And you) - [The Wonder of You](https://12steps12stories.com/the-wonder-of-you/) - The backstory behind the creation of my waiting-for-baby book: The Wonder of You - [A New Beginning](https://12steps12stories.com/a-new-beginning/) - A new website which celebrates children, addresses the needs of families in recovery, grandparents raising grandchildren and more. Empowering children and the child in you. - [Perfection?](https://12steps12stories.com/perfection/) - Imperfectly perfect. Making mistakes is human. How we deal with our imperfection matters. - [The Value of Rest](https://12steps12stories.com/the-value-of-rest/) - Experiment with what works for you. Use a few moments to consider our next actions or next 'non-actions'. - [Consider Your Energy](https://12steps12stories.com/consider-your-energy/) - Children absorb what is going on around them. Like sponges they soak in the energy of others in their environment - [Fathers & More](https://12steps12stories.com/fathers-more/) - To honor fathers and the men who shaped our lives for the better. - [Exploring The Inner Critic](https://12steps12stories.com/exploring-the-inner-critic/) - Try to remain mindful of the impact of our words on those who are young and impressionable - [Faith](https://12steps12stories.com/faith/) - Having faith in the midst of the insecurity of a changing universe. - [Smoother Mornings](https://12steps12stories.com/smoother-mornings/) - Waking up early help you get centered and contributes to a positive outcome - [Be Kind](https://12steps12stories.com/be-kind/) - Ways to extend kindness and helping children experience the pleasure inherent in giving. - [Anxiety in Children](https://12steps12stories.com/anxiety-in-children/) - Indications of anxiety in children and suggestions. - [Quiet Time](https://12steps12stories.com/quiet-time/) - We can set the stage for our children to hear and appreciate their internal guidance. - [Our Inner Critic: (Continued)](https://12steps12stories.com/inner-critic-part-2/) - Consider the messages you heard as a child. 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