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Cara Tyrrell, Founder Core4Parenting
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My daughter loves to sing and she’s blessed with a voice that, if she was willing to share it with the world, everyone would want to hear. 

Seriously, one day I yelled up the stairs and down the hall (as only the mother of a teenager can) Turn that radio down! 

It wasn’t the...

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Pick Up Your Toys! core 4 foundational skills mom life parenting trust

Toddlers dump buckets. It’s in their DNA. Well, if not their DNA it is in their healthy development milestone checklist.

Buckets of toys.

Buckets of sand.

Buckets of dad’s nuts and bolt’s stash that he mistakenly left out the night before when fixing … a toy.

It’s a...

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Mama’s Mini-Mental Health Day about me character mental health mom life self care self identity

Dear Reader, I wrote this on September 4th, 2018. Reading through it nearly three years to the day, I take it as a much needed reminder that every season of our life is just that - and then there is another. Today, I still work really hard but I’m not strung out, and I control my time. To...

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Brene Brown said to Dare Greatly so I promptly burst into tears about me character core4 education kindergarten skills teaching

I just finished listening to Brene Brown's book, Daring Greatly, and promptly burst into tears.

I nearly made it too. But the last four minutes did me in.

You know when, back in the day, you went to a movie theatre and it was a tear jerker but you kept it together, so as not to blubber cry...

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Big Sister, Little Sister about me core4 first time mom raising children self identity sense of self

During the infancy of this blog I’m turning the vulnerability spotlight on myself so that you can really get to know me at the deepest level that a blog connection can create. To that end, I’ve been attic diving into old papers, photos, and VHS tapes (yes, you read that right) and...

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My Journey to Parenthood about me character core4 parenting parenting mission statemnet parenting tips raising children

All I’ve ever wanted to do was be a parent. If you follow me anywhere on line, you already know that. If not, I mean… well the pics say it all. (Yes, my Cabbage Patch Kid had a first and middle name.)

Blood may be thicker than water, but that’s science and this is spirit. ...

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My Public Apology to My Mother about me character first time mom motherhood self identity

To Mother (v) to love and learn in equal measure.

I am an only child.

This is relevant because I really didn’t want to be. In fact, I made it clear with unnecessary repetition to my mother that the lack of a sibling was unacceptable!

My mother, however, was not an only child. ...

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Little / Big Parenting Wins about me covid generation first time mom parenting wins

“Well that’s it” I said to my husband the day we sent our oldest to Kindergarten, my eyes moist with transitional tears. “What?” he said. “We’ve put in everything we could these last 5 years and now it’s time for her to try them on in the real...

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The Making of a Mother about me core4 first time mom motherhood

Me, circa 1986, doing what I love best.

A conversation with me as a child:

Any Grownup: “Cara, what do you want to do when you grow up?” 

Me, holding at least one baby doll and instinctually rocking back and forth: “Be a mommy”.

“Aww”, the grown ups said,...

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Cara Tyrrell @Core4Parenting
Ep 10. Raising Successful Kids Skill #5 Time Management
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Ep 10. Raising Successful Kids Skill #5 Time Management character conscious parenting core4 skills time management

Welcome back, mamas. Today we're wrapping up a six part series. We started this five episodes ago, talking about the skills that your COVID babies, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers need to practice every day in order to have a breadth of skill sets to go be ready learners and ready people to...

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Cara Tyrrell @Core4Parenting
Ep 9. Raising Successful Kids Skill #4- Sense of Self
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Ep 9. Raising Successful Kids Skill #4- Sense of Self character conscious parenting core4 self identity sense of self skills

Welcome back, mamas. We are nearly through our top five executive functioning skills series that will help your child grow into a kindergarten and world ready kid. Today's skill doesn't actually sound like one.  Today's executive functioning skill is sense of self. Let's sit with that for a...

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Cara Tyrrell @Core4Parenting
Ep 8. Raising Successful Kids Skill #3 - Flexible Thinking
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Ep 8. Raising Successful Kids Skill #3 - Flexible Thinking character conscious parenting core4 flexible thinking skills toddler mom

Welcome back, mamas. I am thrilled that we are still in the middle of our five part series of executive functioning skills. We can practice with our kids every day that will set them up for success in the real world.  Today, we are talking about flexible thinking, skill number three out of...

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