While parents with big kids are stressing about the first days of school, parents with little ones are stressing about not getting enough sleep! In that first year of life parents lose about 42 days of sleep! How we survive that – I will never know, but we do! One of the most common things [...]
With the cooler weather and the sun starting to set earlier, I have caught myself saying – it feels like fall! While I am loving every 80-degree, beautiful sunny day, there is that feeling that comes when we get a few cooler days and nights…things are changing! Change stirs up many feelings for most of [...]
Feeling out of control as a parent is never a good feeling. Dealing with all that COVID has brought us, racial injustice, and worrying about what school will be like for our kids, has us all a little uneasy. The above wordle was created by parents on a webinar discussing what parenting is like during [...]
Starting a new school year can be an exciting time but add in the coronavirus pandemic - parents and kids are presented with logistical hurdles and a different set of anxieties, stressors and challenges. For most parents, anxiety typically causes us to lose our cool. It is important to remember that your kids are close [...]
It has been over six months since we started to hear about Covid 19 in the U.S. and our lives abruptly changed. We were told to stay home and work from home while balancing our kid’s education online! The stress is real and intense for many families. As we await the recommendations from health officials, [...]
Do you ever find that you sleep better some nights than others? It could be the feel of the bed, the sounds you hear, or what you did before bed. Over time you have learned what helps you sleep and what time is ideal for you to go to bed and wake up. This becomes [...]
Have you recently become a first-time parent or had an addition to your family? When we had our first child, I thought that transition from being married to having a child was quite intense! While I wanted to be a mother more than anything, the challenges that came with our beautiful bundle caught me a [...]
Sometimes our children’s outbursts can catch us off guard or fuel emotions in us. However, in their defense, they may be too young and lack the skill to be able to appropriately tell us what they need or how they are feeling. One of the best gifts you can give your child is to be [...]
I personally love naps and I love routine! Needless to say, I really wanted to get my children on a good napping schedule! However, learning when to put them down for a nap and how often, was difficult to figure out as they grew. You may have heard it said, good sleep begins in the [...]
I often get asked "why does my child misbehave?" Unfortunately, children are going to test, push and behave in ways that we don’t like sometimes. Kids exhibit challenging behavior like whining, hitting, biting, screaming, talking back or throwing things for one of the following reasons: It works They want to get out of doing something [...]
