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8 Annoying Things Your Kids Do That Grow Their Brain

You know those challenging behaviors from your children that drive you nuts and leave you scratching your head? Turns out they actually grow the brain. Here's how.

Nurturing A Natural Love For Learning

How do you nurture curious risk-takers who love to learn? It starts here.

Helping Your Child With The Tough Transition Back To School

Children bring so many different emotions to the first week of school: excitement and anticipation, fear and wonder. The change may lead to increased meltdowns and/or regressions. Make the transition less overwhelming with these 5 tools.

The 12 Things I Now Know As A Mother

Parenthood is the ultimate journey - not only in getting to know our children but in growing (and testing) ourselves, too. I have learned so much in my years of mommin’, and here are just a few. Maybe you can relate, too …

Behavior is A Symptom, Not The Problem

Behavior is a symptom, not the problem. And when we focus solely on the symptom, the problems causing these behaviors remain unsolved, and they stack up. So, how do we transform challenging behaviors at home and in the classroom?

Why Is My Child Behaving This Way?

Power struggles ... meltdowns ... defiance. Here's what's causing your child's behavior and tools for transforming it.

Getting Your Child To Listen Without Commands And Demands

Want your child to listen without having to nag, command or demand? Follow these 5 tips.

It’s Development, Not Defiance

We are so accustomed to parenting being a struggle. We expect it. We deal with it. We fight back and forth for control. But what if I told you that their behavior was not defiance but development. Here are 3 tools to help your child grow their emotional regulation and impulse...

Practicing Transitions To Reduce Meltdowns

Children are concrete learners and often thrive off of predictability, so it can be hard for them to pivot, especially when the request is to move from a preferred activity to a less preferred task. Here are 5 tools to help children with transitions.

Sometimes It's Hard, And That Isn't A Failure

We cannot shield our children from stress, heartache, and pain, especially as they grow older. And we can't protect them from mental illness. But we can provide them attachment and love them through it.

The Stories Kids Want To Tell About COVID

Our children grew up in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their brains developed in quarantine. Their bodies changed in lockdown. They are emerging from this as different people, and the impact it had on them is yet to be told. Here are 4 things we can do to support our children’s social-emotional...

Regulate Emotions Through Play

How do we get under the meltdowns, tantrums, and big wants and desires fueling our tots? Learn how to use play and mind-body activities to increase connection, regulate emotions, and change undesirable behaviors.

Make Connection a Habit

Brain Development

8 Annoying Things Your Kids Do That Grow Their Brain

Nurturing A Natural Love For Learning

Helping Your Child With The Tough Transition Back To School

The 12 Things I Now Know As A Mother

Behavior is A Symptom, Not The Problem

Why Is My Child Behaving This Way?

Getting Your Child To Listen Without Commands And Demands

It’s Development, Not Defiance

Practicing Transitions To Reduce Meltdowns

Sometimes It's Hard, And That Isn't A Failure

The Stories Kids Want To Tell About COVID

Regulate Emotions Through Play

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