Today I wanted to share a tool I came up with recently, along the lines of helping kids with separation. I shared a lot of my experience with my son’s difficulty separating in Podcast Episode #17, which was about educational choices but moved into figuring out our kids’ “growing edge” and supporting them where they are, whether it’s about going to
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Gun Violence, Safety, and Support for Families Supporting Your Kids – Understanding your child’s perspective of gun violence and how you can support them. Kids will show you that something is bothering them through their behavior, not necessarily with words. They may be more aggressive than usual. They may seem sullen or quieter than normal. They may seem to have
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Gun Violence, Safety, and Support for Families Finding your Mama Bear is about your perception of safety and doing something. It’s about the need to keep our children safe and how that impacts our nervous systems. Find ways to be proactive – whether that’s pulling your child out of school until the problems are properly addressed at least in the short term,
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Gun Violence, Safety, and Support for Families Safety is one of the most basic human needs, and the repeated occurrence of such attacks on helpless, and often arbitrarily chosen victims, takes away from people’s ability to trust that they will be relatively safe as they go out into their world. The collective trauma that many Americans have experienced in bearing witness
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Gun Violence, Safety, and Support for Families We have a serious problem in the United States of America with gun violence. It feels really scary to us and we’ve felt powerless to make it stop. This podcast series is about gun violence, safety, and support for families, In this first episode, we’re going to be looking at what it takes to
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Jamie is Jamie Have you ever been to a toy store with your kids? I’m sure you probably have, even if you try to avoid it. As the mother of 2 boys, I’ve spent my fair share of time at Toys R Us (much to my great dismay). Have you walked through the store and noticed the how the colors
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Jamie is Jamie Last week, we talked to Afsaneh Moradian about the importance of unstructured playtime. Today we continue our conversation with Afsaneh to talk about when and how to let our kids work things out without jumping in to fix it or solve it, and when they really do need our help Much of parenting is about figuring out when
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Jamie is Jamie This week we are beginning a new podcast series about the importnce of unstructured playtime, with Afsaneh Moradian, author of the upcoming book Jamie is Jamie. Unstructured play means kids get to do whatever they want to do, inside or outside, using what is available to them. The main thing is that they are choosing what to do.
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Taming, Transforming, and Transcending Your Triggers In this final discussion with Carrie Contey, we take the topic of triggers beyond the day-to-day experience of stress and struggle to the level of personal transcendence. It’s a delicious conversation that will refuel your parenting energy. Here, we’re offering a broader perspective of what it means to be triggered into a stressful reaction
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Taming, Transforming, and Transcending Your Triggers Unless your parents were highly unique and parented consciously ahead of their time, you were likely disciplined and/or punished for behaviors in an effort to be “socialized.” Mainstream or traditional parenting centered around creating submissive and compliant children who “knew their place.” The shift is underway, however, and children are coming into a place
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