Transforming the Toddler Years
The Blog
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āParenting is really one big, beautiful story and
I love telling it.ā
Cara Tyrrell, Founder Core4Parenting
Contributing Writer: EricaĀ Trainor from the Lil' Iguanaās Childrenās Safety Foundation
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As parents of toddlers and preschoolers, weāve all found ourselves saying ādonātā more times than we can count.
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āDonāt touch that!ā
āDonāt talk to strangers!ā
āDonāt go near the water!ā
āDonāt eat that!ā
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...Ā Remember who I am.Ā
Yep, that is the number one thing I wish I'd done when my kids were tiny.Ā
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Instead, I turned over every part of myself to them.Ā
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Gave until I had nothing left to give, and then, pushed harder.
Of course our job is to meet their needs when they can't, particularly as in...
Gluten and I hate each other. Okay, that's not entirely true.Ā Itās more like a double dutch jump rope rhyme:
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I love gluten but it hates me. When I eat it, I feel icky!
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I don't have celiacs or even a āgluten sensitiveā diagnosis, but I do know my body.
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When I indulge in gluteny-goodness ...
Ā I just got back from two weeks on the road. I racked up:
- Three climates
- two time zones
- and a whole lot of amazing adventures.
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I was in Colorado, meeting clients, writing, and exploring the Rocky Mountains.
The mornings started at 24 degrees, the afternoons finished at 60 but felt like 8...
I have a love/hate relationship with journaling. As in, I LOVE the idea of it: pick the prettiest one, get my special pen, sit in a quiet space, then climb so far into my head that I donāt know what to write, freeze, and end up reinforcing my belief that Iām bad at journaling.Ā
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I want to do it.Ā ...
My kids were medical kids. Seriously, Claire's first five years of life were peppered with diagnoses, doctors, specialists and surgeries.
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After the stillborn loss of our first daughter, I worked hard to keep all her medical struggles in perspective, repeating this mantra daily: At least sheās he...
āThose pants don't really do you any justice.ā
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My (then) best friend said this to me as we were getting ready to go out dancing for the night.Ā
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I was 18 years old and had spent adolescence and young adulthood hating my body. I self described as ābig-bonedā and wondered aloud, so my mom was s...
How often do you get caught in the trigger trap reaction cycle? Itās so easy to do and hard to break out of!Ā
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Reactions are live-time, high emotion, frustration point solutions. They're short lived, and you have to repeat them over and over and over. And, they often lead to punitive discipline, ...
Traveling as adults is stressful enough. But traveling with kids is a different beast.
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The planning. The packing. How does a tiny little human require so much stuff? And, of course, the changing of routines, food options, and sleep.
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The first time I took my kids on a plane they were seven an...
Ā How many emotional triggers do you field in a day? Donāt answer that, because you likely canāt.
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Your toddlers and preschoolers are master button pushers and trigger your conscious and subconscious reactions, often without even trying.
You want to sit inside a level of self awareness that allow...
Why your baby often crawls backwards before forwards.
Dirty Dancing is one of my favorite movies of all time. Seriously, I was ten years old when the movie came out, and spent two years begging my parents to let me watch it, primarily because I loved dancing so much.Ā
And at the ripe old age of 12...
Youāve heard this quip, right? Itās along the lines of, put your money where your mouth is and no pain - no gain.Ā Ā
In plain speak, we tend to take action when we feel invested.Ā
For example:
Your friend gives you free access to her newest online course and you never login, not even once -
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