Identifying What Your Child Is Good At
Identifying your child’s innate gifts and talents is an important part of parenting. It gives you the opportunity to motivate, encourage, and build upon what they need to develop and grow.
Tackling Unknown Biases & Being an Inclusive Family of Allies in a Country with Oppression
We are joined by several of our 2023 expert panelists to discuss the topics of oppression, bias, inclusivity, and becoming allies. We explore how racism, ableism and other forms of oppression show up in healthcare, education, mental health, and in our own personal lives. We explore issues of advocacy, disparities within larger systems, issues with the diagnostic tools we use, the labels we put on others, exploring our own internal biases, and the role of funding in keeping oppressive systems alive and well. We also explore becoming an ally ourselves, while also raising our children to be inclusive allies.
4 Myths About Children’s Meltdowns
Learning to tolerate our children’s big emotions is difficult, but super important and completely possible. Dr. Hilary Mandzik dispels four common myths about children’s meltdowns to help you navigate your kid’s big feelings and your own triggers from your childhood.
Encouraging Responsibility In Your Children
Teaching your children how to take ownership and responsibility for their own goals, and then working towards those goals is a huge part of parenting. We need to encourage responsibility and Nicole Wallace, LCMHC offers tips on the process.
Building a Holistic Toolkit for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Parenthood: Social Support
In part 4 of our series, we’re breaking down the aspects of your social safety net that can help you navigate the life changes of becoming a parent and raising a child.
Steps For Managing Seasonal Affective Depression While Mothering
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in the seasons. Dealing with SAD can add an extra layer of challenges to parenting for moms. Nicole Wallace, LCMHC shares tips for managing your symptoms.
Reframing Our Expectations On Timelines
Our parenting journey contains a lot of timelines that begin in pregnancy and continue throughout motherhood. There are timelines for baby development in utero, healing after birth, our children’s development, the six weeks check timeline and the timelines we give ourselves for healing. Postpartum even has different timelines. Jenna Somich offers a way of reframing our expectations on timelines to keep us present.
Starting Solids: When, Where, & How to Begin
Starting solids with your baby is an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming. When should you start solids and how should you begin?
Managing Social Anxiety as a Mom
You know that mom that you’ve come across a few times who seems a little awkward, you’re a little unsure about who she is and whether or not you kind of want to bring her in. Guess what? She’s not stuck up. She’s anxious.
4 Tips to Manage Back To School Anxiety
August is an exciting time for parents with school aged children. However, along with that excitement can come anxiety as students prepare to return to the classroom.
