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Rethinking New Year’s Resolutions: A Guide to Purposeful Parenting in 2024
Are New Year’s resolutions a good idea or a bad idea? Let’s just say they are very popular but also very hard to keep. Up to 80% of people that make resolutions fail within the first few weeks. So it begs the question is there even a point in setting them? Especially as busy parents, it could be just yet another item on the never ending “to do” list and makes you feel like your failing if you don’t stick to it. Read on for a different approach to resolutions and how to be more intentional in your life and parenting in 2024.
6 Tools to find your calm when parenting
If we come into parenting with stress, overwhelm and an inability to regulate ourselves, it makes parenting so much harder. Here I share 6 tools that have supported me to find more calm in my parenting.
Top 5 Struggles of High-Achieving Parents (and what to do about it)
Are you a high-achieving, perfectionist parent? If so, you may be making parenting harder than it needs to be because of the 5 things.
Staying sane with Halloween candy
Are you looking forward to celebrating Halloween with your child but stressed about all the candy? If healthy eating is important to you and your family it makes sense that you would worry about how much candy they eat.
There is so much fear around candy: it will cause cavities, our kids will experience a sugar high and then crash, it’s unhealthy - artificial colors, TBHQ, titanium dioxide. It all sounds so scary but stay with me.
Check out my top 7 tips for staying sane with Halloween candy
7 Common Parenting Challenges
Being a parent is hard, stressful and can be overwhelming with all the different advice out there. We are human and we ALL make mistakes. Be gentle on yourself and when you do mess up, as well all do, focus on repair.
To help you out, I have put together the most common parenting challenges and tips on how to overcome them so you can parent with confidence and joy!
Understand Why Your Child Misbehaves
Navigating how to manage a child’s challenging behaviour is difficult for many parents, but understanding why a kid behaves the way that they do might be just as or even more of an issue. Do you ever feel like there’s no rhyme nor reason when your little darling decides they would rather act up than listen?
Check out this blog to get a better understanding of what might be going on for your child.
17 Playful Parenting Hacks for When Your Too Tired To Play
I sometimes wish I had the amount of energy my kids do. Can you relate? It's great for them but can be hard as a parent when we are exhausted with all the things.
Here I will share lots of ways to play with your kids, no matter their age, even when you are exhausted.
3 Steps to Setting & Holding Boundaries
Do you sometimes feel that the only way to get cooperation is with rewards or punishment? I know I used to think that and many of the families I work with want to be peaceful parents but aren’t sure how to get cooperation without using rewards and punishments. Check out my 3 tips for setting and holding limits that stick.