Raising emotionally healthy children that will change the world.
Going through a divorce holds it’s own fair share of heartbreak for the couple, and if children are in the picture, there’s the gut-wrenching reality of having to break a piece of their heart as well. [Read more…]
Grief is complex. Most adults struggle to navigate themselves through a painful loss or death, so how do we go about helping our child in this complicated and unwelcome situation?
If you are feeling at a loss for how to help your child through a tough time, you certainly not alone. This is challenging territory for any parent, and you are an amazing parent for digging in to find out how to best support your child during an overwhelming time. [Read more…]
Inside: Learn four essential ways to be the best parent to your teenager while also enjoying this stage of their growth and development.
For decades the teenage years have been foreshadowed by fear and negativity. My oldest daughter just lost her second tooth and I am already breaking out into a sweat thinking about the hormonal years that lie ahead.
While parents are told to ‘buckle up’ for the teenage years, we don’t talk much about the turbulence of the years leading up to adolescence, the pre-teen years.
We should, though. The pre-adolescent years (between the ages of nine and 12) are chock full of amazing developmental changes for your child; cognitive, physical, and emotional. The volume and velocity of these changes can leave us wondering, who took our sweet child and replaced them with a villain from ‘The Descendants’?
It can be an unsettling and confusing time, for both you and your child, but have no fear, there is much hope for the both of you. [Read more…]
At any given time you’ll find four or more parenting books on my Amazon wish list, a few by my nightstand, and an email box chock full of insightful parenting theories and approaches. [Read more…]
Inside: Learn how to beat the holiday stress and be a conscious positive parent during the holidays.
There is no time of year where magic is in the air like during the holidays. When you become a parent this magic intensifies, right along with feelings of exhaustion and overwhelm.
Out of nowhere, standing in the messy kitchen and holding a fresh poop diaper, I sat watching my kids run rampant with excitement playing nicely together (surely some small part of hell must be freezing over right?), and it dawned on me. [Read more…]
If I had been granted the power of seeing the future 20 years ago, I’m not sure I would have believed the life I have today was actually my own. [Read more…]
Having a strong will and fierce determination is akin to being an extrovert, having blue eyes, or a propensity for math—either you have it or you don’t. When your child has this trait, you know. Oh sweet lord, do you know. [Read more…]
Somehow we had gotten all the way upstairs in a matter of seconds, as I gripped the doorknob, my tense knuckles turning white. Adrenaline had clouded my brain and urged me to follow my internal script. The one that sounded something like this, [Read more…]
