Raising kind kids with parenting that empowers
Imagine a house filled with chairs, ladders, and step stools that instead of living at the table or nicely tucked away they are all precariously placed underfoot, at bookshelves, and sometimes even stacked upon each other. While some might think of this as a cruel joke or nightmare, let’s reframe it into something beautiful and […]
I got a phone call this morning and I was talking about how my 2 and 4 year olds were unintentionally tag-teaming a scream-a-thon. “Why?” was the response. But all I could think is “Anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Because they have big emotions? Because they don’t know how to express themselves? Or […]
My daughter was 4 and sitting in the back seat of our van when we were driving down the road. I heard a distinct sound that I won’t readily forget. In a blur, my husband pulled over as I realized she was crying and choking on a peppermint that I thought she had long finished […]
Can your job really influence how successful you are at being a peaceful or mindful parent? Research says yes. In fact, some of the latest research coming out this past year indicates that parents trying to juggle priorities in 2019 need flexibility in their workplace in order to also extend emotional flexibility in the home. […]
Jenn, Emma, and Rhett know all too well what it sounds like when mom starts counting. They hear me from a distant room… “1… 2…3…” and that’s when feet start scattering to do what I asked them to do in the first place like clean up their spill, get down from trying to climb out […]
When our family started homeschooling, suddenly the house was a thousand times more of a disaster because the house was our home base. And it was grating on my nerves to walk through our home and see so many messes. Unfortunately, no matter how much I begged or demanded that my kids work on cleaning, […]
