3 Tips: How to Deal with Sibling Jealousy When the New Baby Arrives.
Helping children adjust to a new baby. My daughter was four years old when her new sister arrived. Needless to say, she had a lot of adjusting to do, since she’d been the only...
Category: Pregnancy and Motherhood.
How to Give a Proper Timeout…to a Mommy.
I tell my daughter that I take “timeouts.” I do this because, in her own way, she understands what mommy needs. And timeouts aren’t for punishing—not really. They are for learning and growing as...
Throwing Away “I’m Sorry” & Teaching Empathy.
Teaching our kids empathy instead of meaningless “I’m sorries.” These days, it seems that I meet more and more narcissists. While I’m not a psychologist, it is commonly believed that a true narcissist doesn’t...
Walking in Her Shoes: Why Different Parenting Styles Is Something to Celebrate.
I was just telling a friend that I’m more opinionated about judgmental parents than I am about parenting styles. It seems that lately I come across two handfuls of articles a day on what to...
How Yoga Helped Me Accept That I’ll Never Have My Pre-Baby Body Back.
Don’t ever Google “post-baby body” and expect to find something uplifting. Also, I shouldn’t have Googled my weight and height, what’s “normal” weight-loss post-baby or anything else along these lines, like I did. The...
12 Things Us Mere Mortals Do after Having a Baby.
I can’t stand parenting advice. It’s pretty grandiose to think that we have the answers for all parents and kids out there because we’ve figured out a few key (or minor) parts. For one, kids...
I Roar. {A Mother’s Love Poem}
Grateful heart, I roar. Infant muse, I roar. Humbled flesh, I bow. I cling to the reckless anger that I deserve to own this space; to inhabit this pre-birth giddiness and joy, regardless of...
10 Things Your Mom was Right About.
There’s something nearly ubiquitous about moms—they give you tons of advice that you proceed to ignore and then later wish you hadn’t. Moms are right quite a lot of the time, and I have...
Why Every Pregnant Woman Should Own This DVD. {Review}
First, I would like to make it clearly known that this is in every way a genuine review and not a paid advertisement or anything along those lines. That said, I loved what I...
Debunking 14 Labor, Delivery & Early Parenthood Myths & Fears.
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby...
