Raising kind kids with parenting that empowers
In fact, each of the Extremely Good Parenting Episodes also has an accompanying blog post.
I was barely ten feet into the store and I heard a woman earnestly whisper over my shoulder “They’re so beautiful.” “Thank you,” I said as she stopped walking to look over Emma and Rhett sitting in the shopping cart. She started telling me all about how she had 4 kids back to back and that she lived […]
The absolute toughest day of kindergarten for Jenn yet was the day she came home after someone proudly declared “Santa is not real!” …and that someone was her. My heart melted and sank to the teeny tips of my toes when Ms. Kinsington started telling me about how 19 students almost lost their minds and sense of […]
Smartphone addiction is real. So is letting a phone think for you instead of utilizing your own brain. And while we’re at it, let’s talk about sexting. Squirming in your seat yet? Or are feeling sweat drip down the back of your neck just thinking about actually handing your teen, tween, or even elementary school-aged child […]
Me too. I echoed this phrase in the minute I saw the first post. I have never shied away from my experiences. While they were horrible and painful and I wish they had never happened, they have become a part of who I am. “By random men in public all my life. By a cousin […]
Me too. Me too. Me too… Dozens of posts fill my feed. Dozens of my friends saying the same thing. “If all the women – and men – who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me too.” as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” It’s pervasive. And […]
There’s a magnet on our fridge that reads “Be not simply good; be good for something -Henry David Thoreau” and sits nestled above my daughter’s routine charts. It’s a gentle reminder for all of us to both be good, do good, and go the extra mile to make a difference. Jenn started Kindergarten this year […]
