Transitions are hard! Regardless of age, regardless of intensity. At work, at home, when your favorite coffee shop discontinues your favorite drink, when your iPhone updates and you can’t find anything, when you send your kids off to college… anyone? Out with the safe and comfortable and in with the new… all over again. Transitions. Are. Hard. And that’s exactly what we talk about in my latest interview with Jennifer Johnson on her podcast, The Fashionista Life. …
As our kiddos head back to school, let’s be honest, there’s anxiety up and down and all around – within our children (‘Will I have friends?’ ‘Will the teachers like me?’ ‘What if I don’t do well?’….. ‘Am I safe at school?’) and within us (about our children feeling all those things!). I bet $1,000 that your go-to reaction is to figure out how you can help your child through their feelings. BUT, I encourage you to …
A mistake I see a lot of couples make when they have children is to put their children first over their marriage. For career moms like me, the priority order is often children, work, then partner. This is because children and work seem urgent; their needs are louder than those of the adult that you’ve committed to spending the rest of your life with. Your partner won’t scream or throw toys on the floor or …
We should create a war on multitasking, just as the government created a war on drugs in the 1980s. When it comes to multitasking, just… say… no. I know, I know… It feels like I’m taking away one of your superpowers. But multitasking is NOT a superpower. In fact, it’s super ineffective. As parents, we are expert multitaskers, because we are forced into doing it the minute that our baby is born. We nurse with one …
“I’m grateful for butt cracks and farts…” I never thought that sentence would fill my heart with joy, but now that I have two little boys, it does. Here’s why: I’ve adopted four views on parenting that help me parent with more joy. #1 I deeply desire my boys to shine bright and be their authentic selves. 🌟I never want to dim their light. This is one of the top reasons that I got trained to …