This Advice Changed My Parenting… Forever
It was a 2-day, behavior conference that was packed with content. My brain was stuffed, positively stuffed, with goodies. I implemented many…
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It was a 2-day, behavior conference that was packed with content. My brain was stuffed, positively stuffed, with goodies. I implemented many…
Continue ReadingOh, you guys. Pregnancy is hard and beautiful and long, but at the end of 9 months, most of us…
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Continue ReadingA long, long time ago, when I was about to give birth, my mother-in-law and my mother were full of…
Continue ReadingWhen I was a little girl, thinking about my future family, I planned on being famous (of course), marrying a…
Continue ReadingBeing a mom is hard work and my days are full of failures, and I mean full. Sometimes they can…
Continue ReadingSelf-esteem: we know it is foundational to children’s well-being and yet it is elusive at best to understand how to…
Continue ReadingI saw her in the Target bathroom. She was waiting for one child to come out of the restroom and…
Continue ReadingAlmost four years ago when I birthed my first child Emily, I made a decision: My daughter would choose her…
Continue ReadingWhat a strange thing to think about: Death. And then to think about a child dying…who does that? Me. See,…
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