New Year, New Approach to Resolutions
How do you feel about resolutions? At this time of year, we all tend to pick a few things about ourselves to change for next year. Often I say I want to lose weight, eat healthily, exercise more, stop drinking....you get the picture. I feel like I make those annually--and also fail to keep them fairly regularly. Today, I am thinking about new ways to think about resolutions. Maybe it will be how I approach each day. I’d like to come from a place of grace or curiosity, of joy
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How to Recognize Anxiety in Kids
One of the really hard things about parenting young kids is that you don't know what you don't know. And your kids are too young to tell you. So when your child misbehaves or throws tantrums it's not easy to discern whether its a health issue or it's just an angry child. Essentially, anxiety in children tends to manifest as negative behaviors that you may have glimpsed briefly in the past but are becoming noticeable, consistent and intense. As a mom, that is super frustrating
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How To Encourage Independence
In many ways we humans are always striving to do things on our own, right from the start. Babies insist on holding a bottle or picking up food themselves. Toddlers emphatically announce, "Me do it." The preschool years are a time of burgeoning growth as children gain the intellectual, verbal, and social-emotional skills to tackle more tasks on their own. But how do you balance your child's desire for independence with his need for safety and limits? This issue is one that do
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Feeling Safe is the End Game
For your child to thrive you need to look beyond a tantrum Being the mom of an anxious child is life changing. It changes the lens through which you read any parenting situation. It changes the tone of your voice; the ability to be spontaneous (ok, parenting in general orders a ceases and desist letter there); and it seriously changes your family dynamics. Changing doesn’t mean worse however. Well, it does sometimes. But it can also open your heart and enrich your brain as yo
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How to be Present With Your Kids in a Digital World
As parents, we share and celebrate some really big milestones with our children. Sometimes it’s a lot harder to share the every-day moments with them. Between work and the constant distractions and invasion of technology into every moment of our lives, being fully present with your kids takes perseverance and dedication to that because of the constant incoming stimuli. With the holidays upon us, the kids are home and we are juggling our busy lives with holiday preparations, d
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