Deborah MacNamara

Dr. Deborah MacNamara is the author of the best selling book, Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one). She is also on Faculty at the Neufeld Institute and the Director of Kid's Best Bet, a counselling and family resource centre. For more information please see www.macnamara.ca or www.neufeldinstitute.org.

Toddler Milestones

How to ease your toddler’s separation anxiety: 5 tips to better attachment

Back To School

This is how to make your morning routines for school easier—and less hectic

Parenting

How to be your child’s safe space

Children's Health

How to help your worried child express their feelings

Back To School

The one thing every child needs to bring with them to school

Health & Wellness

Boys do cry—and parents must let them feel all their emotions

Child Learn & Play

Want to raise resilient kids? Teach them to embrace their feelings

Life

What every parent needs to know about human emotional development

Toddler Learn & Play

Kids not listening? They might be craving a deeper connection—to you

Child

Your independent child is evidence of a healthy parental attachment

Parenting

Help your kids solve sibling fights—without affecting your own relationship

Parenting

Why timeouts don’t work for toddlers

Child Learn & Play

The ‘discipline’ approach that prevents kid problems

Child

Build your child’s village—and teach them how to connect with each other

Parenting

When saying goodbye is HARD—help your toddler manage separation anxiety

Parenting

How to tell your child is realizing her human potential—year-by-year

Parenting

Why consequences don’t work—and what to do instead

Life

The mother in us is born, too

Parenting

Am I loved and cared for? Why every child should be able to answer ‘yes’

Parenting

Your child’s tears are actually signs of resiliency + security

Child Sleep

The bedtime battle plan that will make you all sleep easier

Children's Health

What kids fear at different ages & how to help them

Parenting

How to get to the bottom of whining—and give your kids the tools to avoid it later

Parenting

Why gratitude isn’t something you teach—but help your children feel

Parenting

Child not listening? 5 things you should know, mama

Life

You’ll never regret spending extra time with your child

Parenting

You can’t love too much: How secure attachment helps kids thrive

Parenting

No worries, Mama: Saying “Dada” first actually means you & baby are super bonded