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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 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...
Top 5 Things That We’ve Learned From Preschoolers
Sometimes young children do things that we’ve forgotten how to do--like to play. When we look at what kids do, and really take on their perspective, the courage of children is often staggering. Their wisdom can bring me to tears. And their delight at life, trust of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kids saying “I don’t like you.”
First, let me say you made our week last week. We got so many comments and Facebook shares about our “Worst. Morning. Ever.” blog post that our hearts were filled up with love and appreciation for you (even Jason, who lost the debate). Thank you for making that happen...
Worst. Morning. Ever.
Ciera (age 9) and I had a tough morning getting out the door to get to school. She and I decided it was the “worst morning ever”. It was no fun. Ciera didn’t get out of bed for 45 minutes, she had to get ready in 5 minutes, she didn’t get the shower that she needs so...
What happens when parents disagree
Hello there! Jason and I are NOT perfect in at least a few ways. First of all, we thought we'd have this video out to you two weeks ago, but it didn't happen. Secondly, when you watch this 5 minute video you'll see that Jason and I DON'T have a perfect...