Connection can look very different depending on what is happening in both you and your child.
Some moments, it feels easy to stay close, listen, and respond with patience. Other moments, your child pulls away, gets clingy, shuts down, pushes back, or becomes overwhelmed, and you can feel your own reactions getting stronger too.
The How You Connect Under Stress: An Attachment Pattern Check-In for Parents is a simple reflection tool to help you notice what happens in your relationship when connection feels hard.
Inside, you’ll reflect:
What tends to happen in you when your child pulls away, needs more from you, or becomes upset
Whether you tend to move closer, move away, or shift between both under stress
What your child may be communicating underneath their behaviour
The patterns that can form between your response and your child’s response
Small ways to create more safety, flexibility, and connection in difficult moments
This resource is not about putting you or your child into an attachment-style box but instead helping you recognize the patterns that show up under stress so you can understand what is happening beneath the behaviour and respond in a way that feels better.
Come back to it whenever you notice the same hard moments repeating, connection feels strained, or you want to better understand what both you and your child may need.
Connection can look very different depending on what is happening in both you and your child.
Some moments, it feels easy to stay close, listen, and respond with patience. Other moments, your child pulls away, gets clingy, shuts down, pushes back, or becomes overwhelmed, and you can feel your own reactions getting stronger too.
The How You Connect Under Stress: An Attachment Pattern Check-In for Parents is a simple reflection tool to help you notice what happens in your relationship when connection feels hard.
Inside, you’ll reflect:
What tends to happen in you when your child pulls away, needs more from you, or becomes upset
Whether you tend to move closer, move away, or shift between both under stress
What your child may be communicating underneath their behaviour
The patterns that can form between your response and your child’s response
Small ways to create more safety, flexibility, and connection in difficult moments
This resource is not about putting you or your child into an attachment-style box but instead helping you recognize the patterns that show up under stress so you can understand what is happening beneath the behaviour and respond in a way that feels better.
Come back to it whenever you notice the same hard moments repeating, connection feels strained, or you want to better understand what both you and your child may need.