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Our best advice when it’s tough with kids:breathe, laugh, dance, sing, hug, call a friend. Be gentle with yourself, you’re not done growing up yet. This won’t last and you are not alone.

How to Support a Sad Kid

How to Support a Sad Kid

All we really know at the beginning of this video is that we have a really upset child. We don’t know why exactly he’s upset, nor do we know how to make it better. He acts like want me close. He acts like he doesn’t want me to talk or help. I’m sure there is a good...

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Clean Up Games

Clean Up Games

I hate cleaning up. However, I do believe cleaning up is a valuable skill for kids to learn—not to perfect, but just participate in … at least a little bit. How do you get kids to clean up? Normal people would offer ice cream or time outs. But if you don’t want to use...

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See Us Parent

See Us Parent

Do you ever wish that you could just watch someone else parent (who shares your parenting values)? See how they handle things and learn from it? Get inspired from hearing what they say or at least just know that you aren’t alone in your struggle? Well now you can! I...

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How To Get Your Kids To Sleep

How To Get Your Kids To Sleep

Do you ever have a hard time getting your kids to sleep? We got an email recently from Brigid who is struggling to get her 3 year old to sleep (she’s got two younger ones too). We’ve created a video to help her out. In this video, I share our “Six Sleepy Solutions: To...

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I lied to a baby (our baby)

I lied to a baby (our baby)

Almost 11 years ago, when Alana, our first child, was born I held her little, wet, squishy body in my arms for the first time and I said something to her. She was not yet a minute old and I told her something that was not true. I said, “I’m going to be such a good mom...

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When everything falls apart

When everything falls apart

Usually I don’t get this personal in our blog posts but today if you will indulge me…. Jason and I, of course, are classroom teachers and the end of the year for us is crazy busy. We worked most of our waking hours at school last week. Then hauled our kids to school...

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5-Minutes to a Calm Family

5-Minutes to a Calm Family

A couple of weeks ago we talked about what to do, in addition to empathy, to create calm and peace in your family, when yelling or fighting is happening, and how to create your own personalized “calming plan”. Jason and I made a downloadable list of all of the things...

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Upset + upset = upset!

Upset + upset = upset!

Ok, I know that the following formula doesn’t follow the rules of mathematics. (This could really bother Jason who actually has a degree in Math.) However, isn’t the following formula an illustration of what happens in families? Kids upset + parent upset = recipe for...

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