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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
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
Have you ever felt pressure to tone yourself down?
You’re too intense, too emotional, too deep, too sensitive, too whatever…
And it feels like you’re the only one. [Read more…] about Are You Too Much? You Might Be Highly Excitable – with Aurora Remember
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
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
My daughter learned how babies are made when she was six.
And it was all my fault.
When the Amazon package came, she knew it contained something for her. She ripped it open. “Is this mine?” she asked, wide-eyed. [Read more…] about My Daughter Knows How Babies are Made
If you’ve got a kid, chances are they play games online.
Ninety-seven percent of teen boys play video games, and girls aren’t far behind at 83%.
It’s easy for parents to control what games their child is playing at a young age [Read more…] about Help Your Kids Stay Safe in Online Gaming
“Why do you wear so much makeup?”
I stopped applying eye shadow, shocked.
My daughter was in the bathroom with me, brushing her teeth and getting ready for school. [Read more…] about Should You Let Your Daughter Wear Makeup?
