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Raising emotionally healthy children that will change the world.

The Best Mindset for Parenting a Strong-Willed, Highly Emotional Child

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Inside: Learn two vitally important things that will change your child’s life for when it feels difficult parenting a strong-willed child or an emotionally intense child.
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I will never forget the bumpy wagon ride through that strawberry field three years ago. It was a bright summer day. and my two girls and I had finished filling our baskets with fresh strawberries, but the wagon that would take us back to the country store was nowhere to be seen.

Oh crap, we have to wait.

Waiting can be a terrifying thing for some parents you know.

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How to Make Your Family a Safe Haven From the World

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Inside: When practiced by families these six parenting approaches build connection, resilience, and trust, strengthening a families bond and giving a child safe respite from stressors. 

Raising a child in our modern world seems really scary some days doesn’t it?

Screens everywhere we look- blasting the latest and greatest threats to our child’s safety. While the reality is that our children are technically ‘safer’ now than in previous generations, the fact remains there are still many new and challenging variables to contend with in today’s world.

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What your Daughter Needs you to Know About her Emotions

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Inside: Learn 3 factors essential for raising a daughter who has the ability to cope with emotions in a healthy and productive way. 
This article was published on Parent.co

The messages are utterly confusing and start from a surprisingly young age.

“Don’t cry!”

“You’ll be fine”

“Don’t be such a drama queen”

Our culture is not known for its tolerance of emotion. After all, emotions can be loud. Emotions can be messy, and emotions can be challenging.

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60 Fun and Calming Activities to Make Bedtime Unbelievably Easy

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Inside: Parents will learn how to make the most challenging time of day a lot easier, as well as the best ways to promote connection and calm with their child at the end of the day.
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Cozy pj’s with adorable little toes popping out, reading books about fun and adventure…cuddling under warm blankets. Sounds like a pretty good scenario, right?

Why it is then, that many nights bedtime feels more like a horror story than a fairy tale?

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Toddler Discipline: 5 Insider Secrets that Change Your Outlook

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Inside: Approaching toddler discipline is much easier when you learn the social and emotional development underlying frustrating behaviors. 

“Mama, can we get some fwuut snacks? Pweeeeeeese?”

Last week, while at the grocery store, my 3-year-old and I ran into a close family friend we hadn’t seen in a long time. It was a dear friend so I ran over to greet her enthusiastically with a hug.

As soon as we finished exchanging hello’s, I knew exactly what would happen next as I’d been living in the land of toddler discipline all morning.

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How to Discipline a Child without Criticism And Shame

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When it comes to how to discipline a child, harsh approaches using criticism and shame don’t work and negatively impact a child’s emotional well-being.

Our eight-year-old daughter is a sensitive soul. Ever since I can remember we’ve been able to visibly see the impact our words and reactions have on her. She’s also spirited and independent so in the first few years of her life, her behaviors elicited quite a few words and reactions from her father and me, many of which I regret.

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6 Ways to be a Mindful Parent During the Holidays

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Inside:Learn 6 Ways to be mindful of your child’s needs through the chaotic holiday season to minimize meltdowns and maximize fun, joy, and love.

Putting up Christmas decorations and trimming the tree is a day I look forward to with eager anticipation every year.

Excitement runs high and expectations of laughter, Christmas music, and shiny ornaments float through my mind.

But you know what they say about expectations…

 

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A Quick and Easy Way to Grow Grateful Hearts for the Holidays (and for life)

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Inside: Learn why gratefulness increases your happiness and well-being and a simple 3 step practice to make reflecting on gratitude easy yet amazingly meaningful for your child.

Join the #YESvember challenge and find more joy, fun and connection in parenting! (details at the end of this post).

 

“Can Santa bring me this racetrack mama?”

The question was innocent enough but my irritation rose as I responded to the question for the 43rd time that day.

“You can ask Santa, but he chooses what to bring for kids”.

It was the quickest way I could think of addressing my three-year-olds newly realized ideology that speaking his wish list out into the atmosphere would make said items magically appear under the tree.

I really needed to nip that idea in the bud because he had in fact asked for at least twenty-eight different toys (98% of them race car related) before lunch, despite the fact that is wasn’t even December yet. All of this childlike greed delivered from a crisp red Toy catalog delivered to our mailbox, that I had left out on the counter.

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How To Raise An Emotionally Intelligent Child That Will Succeed In Life

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Inside: You’ll learn how to raise an emotionally intelligent child and why EI is the host for a variety of essential skills your child needs now and in the future.

Let’s be honest. Raising an emotionally intelligent child likely did not top your list of #parentingpriorities when you imagined what life with kids would look like.

Having a healthy relationship with our emotions (or any relationship at all for that matter) has not exactly been prioritized in recent generations.

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This is the Best Way to Nurture Resilience in Your Child Today

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A growth mindset is a way of thinking that will change the way your child views new challenges, hard work, and mistakes and set them up for lifelong resilience. 
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It had happened dozens of times before but despite the initial reaction of excitement and anticipation, I knew how it would likely end.

An awesome new Lego set.

A newly assigned math project.

A self-initiated attempt to recreate the Island of Tafiti from ‘Moana’ using only paper and washi tape.

All of these things began as new adventures with the potential for fun and learning, only to end up in a completely different reality.

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