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Your kid has BIG feelings.
Feelings that get out of control sometimes.
Feelings that you don’t understand at all.
You may have been taught that the best way to deal with those feelings is to tell your kid to calm down. [Read more…] about Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child – Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
You’ve got a spirited child. (That’s putting it lightly!)
Everything feels like a power struggle. Your kid won’t do what you say. It’s wearing you OUT.
Luckily, “Mom Mentor” Michelle Den Boer has some tools for you. [Read more…] about Raising Your Spirited Child – Parenting Tools with Michelle Den Boer
When you spend time with your mother, do you ever get the feeling she doesn’t really like you very much?
Maybe she likes the IDEA of you—the perfect daughter she can show off to her friends, or the emotional confidante she can tell all her problems to… [Read more…] about 5 Types of Narcissistic Mothers – Rebecca Chapman
You’re a mom. Of course you feel mom guilt.
Being a parent is tough. There’s never enough help, and there’s never enough time, and you’re never measuring up to that vision of the Ideal Mom you have in your head.
Tiffany Kilpatrick has some tools that can help. [Read more…] about No More Mom Guilt – Tiffany Kilpatrick
I’ll let you in on a little secret.
I was woefully underprepared for the world of work.
Not because I didn’t have the knowledge—I had a degree, after all—but because my industry hadn’t even been invented yet. [Read more…] about Preparing Children for the Future of Work – Karena de Souza
There’s someone in your life you care about…
And you can’t just talk to them anymore.
You don’t agree on certain things.
And you could live with that—everyone disagrees on some things, right? [Read more…] about How to Disagree with People You Love – Ariana Friedlander
Yes, everyone is stressed out.
Yes, everyone is fighting more.
But there’s one thing that not even the pressures and stress of living through a pandemic can excuse:
Abuse. [Read more…] about How Coronavirus is Affecting Domestic Violence – Cathy Oddie
I was driving home one day and saw two people on the road ahead, enjoying an evening afternoon stroll. I recognized them—knew them, in fact, quite intimately—and slowed down, raising one hand to wave.
They jammed their heads lower. They twisted their bodies to the side, to put as much of their backs towards me as possible. [Read more…] about Let’s Pretend You Don’t Exist: The Dangers of the Silent Treatment
We are living in challenging times right now.
So many marriages have been pushed to their breaking point.
The stress of quarantine, financial uncertainty, and ambiguous loss widens the cracks in even healthy relationships. [Read more…] about How a Man Feels When His Wife Wants a Divorce
Do you remember the first time you realized that something was wrong with the way you look?
I remember. I was in 5th grade. I’d just gotten glasses. My classmates called me four-eyes.
As I became more self-conscious about my appearance [Read more…] about How to Help Girls Develop a Positive Body Image with Rebekah Buege
