Positive Education
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Theresa Miles
Center Director
Create and Enhance Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems
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Positive Leadership for Parents
This space was created to share reflections and evidence-informed insights on child development, behaviour and positive leadership in parenting.
Drawing from my experience in early childhood education and motherhood, I share perspectives that support families in building more conscious, respectful and connected relationships with their children.
One of the most important skills a child can develop has nothing to do with academics, sport, or even social success.
It is the ability to be with themselves.
To sit with boredom without immediately needing entertainment. To experience frustration without looking for the quickest escape. To feel sadness, disappointment, loneliness, or uncertainty without believing something has gone wrong.
Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult in a world that offers endless opportunities to avoid discomfort.
One of the things we don’t talk about enough in parenting is how deeply children feel our internal state. Not just what we say or do, but how we feel while we’re doing it.
Children are incredibly perceptive. They notice hesitation, doubt, guilt, and uncertainty – often before we even realise we are carrying those feelings ourselves.
And this is where something important happens: when we feel unsure in our role, children can begin to feel unsure in the world.
It’s a very natural instinct. We see our child getting upset, frustrated, or on the verge of tears, and something inside us immediately wants to fix it. We distract, we offer alternatives, we rush to make things better. We soften the moment before it fully arrives.
Not because we don’t value emotions, but because it’s genuinely hard to watch our children struggle.