About Caring & Caring
Caring & Caring offers relationship-based support for parents and caregivers in the early years of raising children. The work is grounded in developmental understanding and a focus on everyday moments of connection, repair, and emotional regulation.
Rather than focusing on behavior management or quick solutions, this work centers the relational context of parenting—how children and caregivers are shaped by ongoing interaction, stress, and repair over time.
About me
Leith Speer Barton
I am a second-year MSS student, currently training toward clinical licensure as an LCSW, with a focus on early childhood development and parent–child relationships.
I bring over eight years of experience facilitating parent–caregiver and early childhood classes. Much of my work has centered on supporting families in understanding behavior through a relational and developmental lens, with attention to the everyday dynamics of connection, stress, and repair.
My practice is informed by in-depth training as a RIE® Associate through RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), along with parent coaching, relationship coaching, and Fair Play facilitation. These frameworks collectively support a steady, reflective approach to family life and caregiving relationships.
Alongside my professional training, my experience as a mother continues to shape how I understand the everyday realities, challenges, and rhythms of family life.
My approach
This work is grounded in a few core principles:
✿ Support is most effective when it is steady rather than urgent
✿ Understanding matters more than instruction
✿ Connection and repair are central to development
✿ Everyday interactions are where change happens
I view parenting as an ongoing relational process rather than a set of skills to master. In that process, caregivers often benefit from having space to slow down, reflect, and make sense of what is happening beneath the surface of daily life.
What this means in practice
In practice, this work may help you feel more steady in responding to your child, more able to repair after moments of rupture, and more confident in your own understanding of your family.
The focus is not on doing things “perfectly,” but on building enough awareness and support so that everyday challenges feel more navigable and less isolating.
Start a conversation
If you’re looking for grounded, reflective support in the early years of parenting, you’re welcome to reach out.
We can begin by talking through what support might be most helpful for your family right now.