Tag: parenting
World Autism Month: Finding Community
April is Autism Awareness Month or, as I prefer to call it, Autism Awareness Acceptance and Inclusion Month. As I reflected on what I...
Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster of Parenting
Emotional regulation has a lifetime of experience within us. How we regulate our emotions comes through learned history, pairing, routines, and so much more....
Yes, My Kids Are Teenagers and I Still Pack Their Lunches
There are many opinions on whether children should be responsible for packing their lunches for school. I’ve had quite a few conversations on this...
You Just Never Know
The news of Kate Middleton’s video about her cancer treatment is the ultimate reminder that you never know what someone else is going through....
Let’em Fail: Why Letting Your Kids Stumble is Necessary
Catching your child before they fall begins with the toddler age when they are just learning how to walk.
The baby gates are up, the...
How To Foster Sibling Love
Siblings fight. That’s just what they do. When put in close quarters, they fight for attention, to be heard at the dinner table, and...
But How Do I Know if This Is Right?
One thing I have learned in my eleven years as a mother and six years as a mother of three is that decisions are...
Modest Is Hottest
Modest clothing for kids has been all over my feed recently. A mom went viral after shopping for dresses for her seven—and ten-year-old girls....
Fashionably Stubborn
Today was crazy sock day at my son’s school. He used one sock each from two pairs of my husband’s more colorful dress socks,...
Not All Skinfluencers Glow: On Saying No to Tween Skincare
We were shopping for a back-to-school outfit at an outdoor mall last August when I first noticed my ten-year-old daughter eying Sephora from across...