Parenting is Hard Work!
When I was a new mom who shared my birth story with anyone who wanted to hear it, I quipped, “They don’t call it labor for nothing!” Even if you didn’t personally give birth to your children, the labor involved is still intense. The hard work,...Helping Your Child Sleep Well, So You Can Parent Well—Part One {Guest Post}
Please enjoy this guest post from Jessica Begley. Jessica is holds a Master’s degree in public health, and is an Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and Certified Lactation Counselor. She is the founder of The Baby Sleep Geek and is passionate about helping wee...Rethinking Fear
What role does fear play in parenting? Primitive, biological, and extremely useful, fear is not something I want to discount, but I do think it deserves close examination. Fear is sometimes necessary for survival, but—here the kicker—not usually. The fear response in...Avoiding Shame and Blame
How to Avoid Shame and Blame Excerpted and adapted from What Not to Say: Tools for Talking with Young Children Sometimes adults don’t mean to use shame and blame in their interactions with children—these approaches can sneak in when we are least expecting it....Emotional Rescue
Yes, I’m stealing The Stones’ song title, though I could have said Emotional Literacy, or Emotional Intelligence too. Emotions are so misunderstood. They have such a bad rap in our relatively stoic and repressed culture. My highest hope is a collective of human beings...
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