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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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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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…
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Why Bother With Self Awareness?
It might sound a little backwards but if we truly want our children to succeed in life we need to focus less on our children and more on ourselves.
