by Natasha | Dec 11, 2022 | Blog, Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, Finding Christmas and New Years joy can be challenging. If you and your family celebrate Christmas and New Years, you likely experience additional irritability, full blown emotional outbursts, and trips down memory lane (pleasant and not pleasant),...
by Natasha | Nov 7, 2022 | Parent World
Meet Your Estrogen! Interesting Facts when in Hormone Harmony It comes in 3 forms: Estrone (the only type of estrogen after menopause, produced by the adrenals) Estradiol – can facilitate a balance in the bodies making and use of serotonin, thereby alleviating...
by Natasha | Oct 19, 2022 | Blog, CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, There are some nuances in early language development. Marci wished she’d known this when, at her daughter’s wellness appointment, the doctor said ‘there’s a problem here’. She descended into mom guilt. It’s great the doctor is paying attention....
by Natasha | Sep 28, 2022 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, I was wondering what D of parenting I would write about, when the other day a dad and I were talking. His focus was on how he and his wife discipline differently. I like to write about things I hear parents telling me about so here we go on...
by Natasha | Aug 22, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, There are three often confused quiet-child characteristics that matter. Because how we support each of them is different! I can think of several cultures in which these three are outside of the cultural norms/expectations for sure. These three are...
by Natasha | Jul 22, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, I witnessed this scenario and it made me wonder how many conversations do we have as parents in which we need to get curious about ‘what’s under this?’ Here’s what I heard: Dad, putting some garden stuff into a trash bin. “Hey Beth” Beth...
by Natasha | Jul 15, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, What’s the big deal about your parenting team? In short, these are people that are your modern version of ‘it takes a village’. We no longer have that house-to-house, across the neighborhood blocks, village for our free.roaming kids (or...
by Natasha | Jun 16, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, We all encounter this – the one big ‘C’ in parenting. Control. Control is that every present feeling, according to dear Webster, that we have ‘the power to direct behavior or a course of events’. And of course, as parents we do...
by Natasha | Mar 23, 2022 | CHILDREN, Parent World
Dear Caring Parents, There are two Bs in your parenting experience that are fun to think about. They can help you out of guilty times and allow some annoying things to even be funny. It’s all about adopting these two Bs – becoming and being. I must admit...
by Natasha | Jan 11, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, Have you noticed these two A’s in your parenting experience – acclimation and acceptance? We usually think of acclimation when we’re changing seasons or hiking higher mountains. Acclimation means to adapt to a new temperature,...