How To Reframe Our View of Children’s Negative Behaviors Being a parent is difficult. You are thrust into the most important job of your life with little preparation and little guidance on how to succeed. Unless you have a degree in Child Development, you are often left with little to go on, except how you […]
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How To Set Healthy Parent Child Boundaries Without Guilt Being a parent is rough. It often feels like you’re not getting a moment alone. Every time you turn around there is a child hanging on your leg, another closely following you behind and talking incessantly, and another bombarding you with demands from their room. It’s
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Why Resilience Is A Skill That Every Family Needs To Learn We’re now almost 2 weeks into 2021, and despite all the cute memes about leaving 2020 behind, it hasn’t yet happened. In fact, the first 2 weeks of 2021 have been a doozy. But, not everyone is coping with the hardships the same way.
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Create New Meaningful Holiday Traditions During COVID As the COVID pandemic continues to drag on across the globe, we start hitting the holiday season. Traditionally, holidays are a time of large family gatherings, parties, and religious gatherings. All of which are highly advised against this year by the CDC. And thus COVID is making us
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Remote Learning Tips for Parents – How To Keep Your Child Engaged and Motivated Depending on where you live, you may have enjoyed some in person schooling, only to go back to remote learning in the recent weeks or you may have been remote learning this whole time. Either way, you’re probably feeling stressed and
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Using Time Outs To Help With Emotional Regulation Have you tried to manage your child’s behavior with time outs? Has it worked? Do you feel guilty about it? Is it because you’ve read articles that advocate against the use of time outs as a behavior management tool? If you are confused by all the information
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Best Parenting Books for Spirited Children 2021 If you’ve got Highly Sensitive (Spirited) Children, your parenting life has likely not been an easy one. From sleep issues to epic meltdowns, there is very little peace in a Spirited Household. And the year 2020 made life even more difficult. I don’t know about you, but 2020
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Increase Emotional Intelligence of Children Through Play Have you ever heard the term Emotional Intelligence? If you haven’t, here is what it means according to Psychology Today: Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as emotions of others. Wouldn’t you say that this is a very important skill
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Teachable Moments and Big Picture Parenting Teachable moments are all around us. They arise spontaneously and are fleeting opportunities to make a great impact on our kids. From teaching our kids how to share, dress, talk, act, listen to the bigger lessons of how the world works, what is equality vs. equity, we as parents,
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Quarantine Life – How Moms are Surviving Quarantine life sucks! It’s been nearly a month since a stay at home order has been in effect in North Carolina. For my family, it’s been about 6 weeks of quarantine life. We hunkered down before things started to officially shut down in our state. Needless to say,
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