Why You Shouldn’t Force Your Child to Hug (and What to Teach Instead)
Why you shouldn’t force your child to hug anyone, even family, and how we teach our kids to trust their gut: greeting choices, “no means no the first time,” and more.
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A Gentle Bedtime Routine for Kids (Even With Five of Them)
Our real bedtime routine for kids: screens off an hour before, a five-minute tidy, read-alouds, music and songs, and what we do about the bewitching hour.
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How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids: 6 Things That Help
Want to stop yelling at your kids? Six calm, practical steps that build a pause between the trigger and your response, from one cycle-breaking mom.
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How to Handle Your Toddler Hitting Without Yelling Back
Toddler hitting is common, and it is still hard. Here is how to handle toddler hitting calmly, set a firm limit, and teach what to do instead.
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I Graduated With a 3.88 GPA While Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis in College. Here’s What That Actually Cost Me.
I woke up one summer morning with a swollen ankle and no memory of falling. It looked like a bad sprain. It felt like one too, except nothing had gone wrong. I hadn’t rolled it, hadn’t tripped, hadn’t done anything except go to sleep and wake up with a foot that decided today was the…
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Saying “No” is a Complete Sentence
No is such a short, easy word and you would think that it would be easy to say as well. However, it’s not easy to say no sometimes it feels downright impossible! Why? And we do find the courage to say no; we feel the need to justify and explain why so that people don’t…
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Create a Simple and Easy Cleaning Schedule For Your Home
You might hear me mention this several times but I feel like cleaning my house is the very road leading to insanity. Seriously? You do the laundry, only to turn around and find MORE dirty clothes. You spend a ridiculous amount of time in the kitchen to get it spotless and sigh a great sigh…
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Relieving Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain- Managing Weight
I feel like I have always struggled with my weight, although now I wish I had been more comfortable with myself back then. Now after a Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis and three kids later, I was really struggling with weight. Plus more serious RA flare-ups due to a number of factors I was in rough shape….
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How To Use Essential Oils: Basics
Here we are going to dive into the application or how to use essential oils, the where and why. This is mainly focused on topical application but we will touch on other applications. Caution before starting with essential oils You are the only one that knows what is going on with your body, so trust…
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Routine For Families: The Pathway to Calm
One thing that we want for our kids is for them to have a stable atmosphere because research shows that routine and stability help kids to thrive. Now we are not talking about controlling every second of everyday because kids also need to take time for unstructured play to explore the world around them and…
