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For All the Moms Ready to Leave Meltdown City & Discipline Drama in the Rearview:
Parenting is hard. Find the real “trick” to getting your kids to listen. Find effective ways to feel more connected and less conflicted in your parent-child relationship. If you’ve tried everything under the sun to make life smoother at your house and stop the...
How Do You View Your Child? As a Sunset to Be Enjoyed or a Math Problem to Be Solved?
This is a question I’ve seen come up in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy books, courses, etc. I don’t know who to credit the quote with, so if you know- tell me in the comments! A sunset or a math problem? Yikes. That can be a tough pill to swallow if we’ve been...
3 Simple Ways to Get in Tune With Your Child
Are you ready to learn a fancy word today? Attunement. Getting in tune with your child. Getting in sync with your child. (Not listening to N’Sync with your child though a good parent would absolutely teach their kids the dance to Bye Bye Bye. If this is weird to you,...
Where on Earth Do I Even Begin with All These Behavior Tools?!
“I want to use these Parenting with ABA tools in my home, but I don’t know where to start!” “I see all these posts about connecting with my kids better, managing my own feelings, teaching my kids, helping my kids get along, using visual supports- but I don’t know how...
How Do You Typically Handle Your Own Big Emotions In Front of Your Kids?
Do you find yourself feeling all the feelings as a mom? That emotional wave just coming in- sometimes flattening you, sometimes you can comfortably ride it. The mental load of motherhood comes with all these feelings. What the what? How on earth am I supposed to...
Easy Tip to Practice Being a More Compassionate Parent
When you were in school, do you remember the assignments where you had to summarize a reading passage into one short sentence or thought? Now harness that skill of finding the central message when you are talking with your child. Does your child ever go on a long,...
Parent Coaching – Because Your Kids Don’t Come With an Instruction Manual
Parenting is the hardest job ever. It changes day to day, minute to minute. Just when you feel like you’ve gotten into a good groove with your kids, something changes. They are growing and changing constantly so what does that mean for us as parents? We have to grow...
Stop Shoulding on Yourself!
That’s right. You heard me. Stop shoulding on yourself. “I should have said this instead of that to my child.” “I should have been more patient.” “I shouldn’t have raised my voice.” “I should have talked to my partner about the way they handled that situation with the...
Who is Getting All of Your Compassion Reserves These Days?
What is compassion? It is the emotional response to another's pain or suffering, involving an authentic desire to help. In her book Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown says, "Compassion is fueled by understanding and accepting that we’re all made of strength and struggle-...
Which Kind of Parent Do You Want to Be: Carpenter or Gardener?
Have you ever bought furniture from IKEA? Have you tried to put it together with your spouse? It can be quite a test on your relationship! What does that experience look like? You’ve got the instruction book, the tools, 4 million tiny screws, all the pieces of the...
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