Adequate sleep benefits every member of the family. Sleep deprivation can adversely affect life and work. Sadly, toddlers don’t understand sleep science. Toddler sleep clocks can give your child the visual and sound signals that help them to differentiate between sleep time and it’s-okay-to-wake-up [...]Continue Reading
Self Care Starts Here: how to use the REST acronym
How are you right now? Feeling well or kinda 'meh'? Or maybe you're really struggling. If you're feeling like you could use a dose of kindness, read on. When you're stressed it's easy to think things like: Now is not the time to take care of myself, I've got things to do! or: You're not doing well [...]Continue Reading
A Few Secrets about Playing with Toddlers
How do you play with a toddler? I have to tell you a secret about playing with my toddler- a few actually. First off, even though she's my third child sometimes it still feels awkward to sit and play with my current toddler. I have a hard time letting go of the million busy items I need to do [...]Continue Reading
How to Deal When Someone Criticizes Your Parenting Style
Do you feel like you have support for your positive parenting style? It can be exhausting to face criticism of your parenting at every turn. Sometimes it’s extremely lonely if you’re the one breaking patterns in your generation. Your parenting choices might be totally different from people in [...]Continue Reading
Printable Images of Fall Activities
This collage of nine images can be used to illustrate many different Fall Activities. It is sized to fit on a standard 8.5x11 piece of paper so you can download it, print it and cut it out however you like (trim the edges to make leaf shapes?). The Fall pictures I've included are: Fall [...]Continue Reading
Tips for How To Transition Your 18-Month-Old to Daycare
Sending your child to daycare is a big step in both your and your child’s lives. It can be emotional, exciting, scary, even anxiety-inducing. After all, daycare will be an important part of your child’s educational and emotional development. By the time your child is 18-months old, they will [...]Continue Reading
