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Dear Little Mama, Stop looking for the final landing strip of this parenting journey—it doesn’t exist. I know you think it does. You see airplanes landing all around you… safely, smoothly, touching down on milestones and achievements you can only imagine.

That’s such an important (and painful) question. When a trauma-impacted child rejects a parent—whether through words, behaviors, or distance—it can cut deeply.

One of the most painful contradictions in our mental health and justice systems lies in the way we treat teenagers struggling with severe mental illness, including psychosis. On one hand, these young people are granted civil rights that allow them to refuse psychiatric medication—even when their judgment is deeply impa

Dr. Gordon Neufeld describes attachment as a series of developmental “lessons” children naturally move through when caregiving is consistent and secure:

My niece gripped my hand tightly, tears streaming down her face. We still had to cross the river six more times—slippery rocks, cold water, exhausted legs. She had already fallen twice. She was hungry, overtired, and overwhelmed by a hike that, in hindsight, was way too much for a 6-year-old. We did not know what we w