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Mother’s Day and Mental Health: What Every Parent Needs to Hear
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and before the flowers arrive and the cards are opened, I want to say something that does not always get said. You are doing more than you realize. Not the perfect version of more. Not the highlight reel. The real kind. The kind that happens at 11pm when your teen…
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Love Is Not Just a Feeling. It’s Something We Practice. Your kid’s inner world depends on it.
Your kid’s mental health doesn’t grow in a therapist’s office. It grows in the small, repeated moments when they feel truly seen by you. This week honors both Global Love Day on May 1st and International Kids’ Mental Health Awareness Day on May 2nd, and the message behind both is the same: connection is the…
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You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Your Teen’s Hero: A Reflection for National Superhero Day
There are moments in parenting that don’t feel heroic at all. You lose patience, raise your voice, and walk away wondering if you got it wrong. In those moments, it’s easy to believe you’re falling short and not the hero. But what kids remember is not perfection. It’s presence. Not the perfect response, but the…
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When Stress Rises, Parenting Teens Feels Harder
There are moments when parenting teens starts to feel different.
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When Siblings Fight, Something Else Is Happening – A Reflection on Sibling Conflict and Connection
For many families, sibling conflict is not occasional. It shows up daily, often in the smallest moments. A disagreement over a toy turns into yelling. What begins as play can shift into frustration in seconds, leaving parents feeling caught in a pattern that repeats. From the outside, it can look like constant fighting or defiance.…
A 3xTEDx speaker, media contributor, parenting coach, and a mom of two – helping families thrive by using the Guidance Approach to Parenting.