by Lara | Feb 2, 2023 | Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles, Mindful Parenting
What does a musical theater production have to do with love? Well, I was about seven years old, and it was the setting for one of my earliest memories of my parents as a couple. In other words, it had dawned on me for the first time (at least consciously) that they...
by Lara | Jan 4, 2023 | Mindful Parenting, Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles
I was a scant six months into the journey of parenthood with my first child. All the blogs, books, and fellow playgroup mommies were telling us it was time to sleep train, so we did. We bought Sleeping Through the Night, a respectable and useful text on achieving the...
by Lara | Nov 1, 2022 | Raising Resilient Children, Handling Misbehavior, Dealing with Hard Things
I don’t know if it’s the same in your community, but this year, the floodgates seemed to have reopened on kid-friendly October activities around here. Every Fall Festival, Halloween hoe-down, and birthday party imaginable seems to have happened this past month. ...
by Lara | Sep 2, 2022 | Dealing with Hard Things, Raising Resilient Children, Mindful Parenting
It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeeeeear! Welcome to Back-to-School season. Regardless of which day you start the 2022-2023 school year, any parent who’s been here can attest – it’s a time of change, new horizons, and oftentimes…worry. Backing Them vs....
by Lara | Aug 1, 2022 | Mindful Parenting, Raising Resilient Children
Ah summertime…a perfect opportunity for our kids to kick back…relax…sleep in…do nothing… WAIT A MINUTE! While we certainly want to give kids a chance to recharge their batteries away from their typical school routine, today we want to make the case for putting them to...
by Marjie | Jun 30, 2022 | Raising Resilient Children, Mindful Parenting, Dealing with Hard Things
“This is life. You don’t get a vote about what you have to deal with. You do get a vote on whether you deal with it or not.” – Barbara Fairfield, LMFT Often, parents are afraid to bring up anything traumatic because they fear they’ll traumatize their...
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