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What is One of My Absolute Favorite Parenting Tools?
What is one of my absolute favorite parenting tools? Special one-on-one time with each child. No, I’m not talking solo trips across the country or even one-on-one dates to a restaurant or movie theater. Those things are awesome, but not exactly doable on a regular...
Are You Ready for Increased Connection in your Home? Improved Communication? Who Isn’t?
When you are talking to your children, are you aware of what your body language is saying to them? This makes me think of Ursula in The Little Mermaid. Can you hear her voice? “Body language- HA!” Anywhoo, we see posts or hear advice all the time about WHAT to say to...
Self-Care Means Asking What I Need Right Now
When we hear about self-care for moms, we think about bubble baths and weekends at a spa. Those sound lovely but so far out of reach for most of us. So what does self-care even mean? The dictionary definition of self-care is this: the practice of taking an active role...
Are you familiar with the term “invisible workload”?
What is the invisible workload? It's all the extra work that women put on their shoulders to make sure the household runs smoothly, and other people are safe, nurtured, and comfortable. It is the stuff moms do without even realizing it- remembering where someone put...
For all the parents who are fresh out of giddy up…there’s hope for us!
Raise your hand if in the past few months you’ve used one of these terms to describe yourself: A Zombie A Robot A shell of a person A ghost of your former self Floating through life Just getting by No more exhausted than that. Emotionally exhausted. The kind of tired...
Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
Put on your own oxygen mask first. This is important for your own self-care as a mom. When you hear that, what feelings come up for you? Does it make you roll your eyes like, “Who has time for that?” Or are you thinking, “What does that even mean?” For our purposes...
Overwhelmed. Exhausted. Over it. Burnt out.
Have you heard of the term Parental Burnout? It’s a very real ting that is actually different from job burnout. Job burnout typically has 3 components: A state of emotional and physical exhaustion A detached attitude towards work A decreased sense of accomplishment If...
Losing Your Cool, Mom?
You peek into the kitchen around 5pm- Anywheresville, USA. Mom is trying to make dinner. Child #1 is asking Mom the same question over and over and over. Mom answers it patiently over and over and over. Child #2 starts helping their self to a snack. Opening the...
What would happen if you flipped your parenting perspective? No more whack-a-mole!
When your child is doing something that is driving you crazy and/or causing problems in your home- what is your first reaction? What is that knee jerk parenting reaction we all have. SHUT. IT. DOWN. Make it stop. Find a way to put an end to this problem behavior....
Are you a flexible parent? Do you want to be one?
“Flexible parenting is about approaching parenting with an open mind and creativity. It is about taking a flexible, experimental approach to parenting- an approach of discovering what works for you and for your child.” (Whittingham & Coyne, 2019) It’s all about...
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