Transforming the Toddler Years
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“Parenting is really one big, beautiful story and
I love telling it.”
Cara Tyrrell, Founder Core4Parenting
Remember who I am.
Yep, that is the number one thing I wish I'd done when my kids were tiny.
Instead, I turned over every part of myself to them.
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. It’s more like a double dutch jump rope rhyme:
I love gluten but it hates me. When I eat it, I feel icky!
I don't have celiacs or even a ‘gluten sensitive’ diagnosis, but I do know my body.
When I indulge in gluteny-goodness ...
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.
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...
It was a quiet summer Saturday morning. I was up early, a cup of hot coffee in my hand while momming mantras ran through my mind: I will stay calm today. I WILL stay calm today. I can do this.
The day before with my 4 year old had been hard. The day before that, even harder. Honestly, it had j...
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 don’t know what to write, freeze, and end up reinforcing my belief that I’m bad at journaling.
I want to do it. ...
You’ve heard this quip, right? It’s along the lines of, put your money where your mouth is and no pain - no gain.
In plain speak, we tend to take action when we feel invested.
For example:
Your friend gives you free access to her newest online course and you never login, not even once -
...
In the first article of the series, Welcome to the World Little One, we explored your baby’s basic survival needs during the newborn phase.
Today we tackle self-soothing.
Google it and you get a lot about babies, kids, and the ability to fall asleep and calm down by themselves. Yes, that is the ...
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 apply pers...
