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Our best advice when it’s tough with kids:breathe, laugh, dance, sing, hug, call a friend. Be gentle with yourself, you’re not done growing up yet. This won’t last and you are not alone.
Kids Having Feelings About Going Back to School
Hello there, I’ve received a few emails recently from parents asking how to support their kids emotionally as they return to school. I’ve got a really cool tool to share with you from the book The Whole Brain Child by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson. This tool, the...
How to help a child grieve
As much as we wish we didn’t have to see our children in pain, sometimes things happen--a grandparent dies, a beloved family pet has to be “put to sleep”, or a friend moves away. These situations, when our child comes face-to-face with loss, death, or grief, can be...
How to Support a Sad Kid
All we really know at the beginning of this video is that we have a really upset child. We don’t know why exactly he’s upset, nor do we know how to make it better. He acts like want me close. He acts like he doesn’t want me to talk or help. I’m sure there is a good...
Clean Up Games
I hate cleaning up. However, I do believe cleaning up is a valuable skill for kids to learn—not to perfect, but just participate in … at least a little bit. How do you get kids to clean up? Normal people would offer ice cream or time outs. But if you don’t want to use...
See Us Parent
Do you ever wish that you could just watch someone else parent (who shares your parenting values)? See how they handle things and learn from it? Get inspired from hearing what they say or at least just know that you aren’t alone in your struggle? Well now you can! I...
How To Get Your Kids To Sleep
Do you ever have a hard time getting your kids to sleep? We got an email recently from Brigid who is struggling to get her 3 year old to sleep (she’s got two younger ones too). We’ve created a video to help her out. In this video, I share our “Six Sleepy Solutions: To...
Top 5 Things That We’ve Learned From Preschoolers
Sometimes young children do things that we’ve forgotten how to do--like to play. When we look at what kids do, and really take on their perspective, the courage of children is often staggering. Their wisdom can bring me to tears. And their delight at life, trust of...
I lied to a baby (our baby)
Almost 11 years ago, when Alana, our first child, was born I held her little, wet, squishy body in my arms for the first time and I said something to her. She was not yet a minute old and I told her something that was not true. I said, “I’m going to be such a good mom...
When everything falls apart
Usually I don’t get this personal in our blog posts but today if you will indulge me…. Jason and I, of course, are classroom teachers and the end of the year for us is crazy busy. We worked most of our waking hours at school last week. Then hauled our kids to school...