Last year I was interviewed for the Be The Best Parent You Can Be video summit, a series featuring 22 parenting experts hosted by Jeanne-Marie Paynel of Voila Montessori. The series aimed to share ideas about nurturing children’s full potential as well as support parents in their caregiving role. Here is my interview, I hope… {read more}
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Sick Day Activity Cards {Printable}
Brought to you by Nuffnang and The Little Range. Over the past few weeks our little girl has come down with a number of coughs and colds. Poor thing just keeps picking up germs wherever we go! Luckily the rest of the family has stayed fairly healthy but a blocked nose and irritating cough can… {read more}
May I never forget… {A Poem for My Grown-Up Baby}
This is a letter to my daughter, my third born. I hope you will read it when and if you have your own children one day, and understand some of what I felt as a mother when you were growing up and be assured of just how much I loved (and love) you. Dear Daughter,… {read more}
Learn About Having a Positive Attitude {Magnet Activity for Kids}
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. – Brian Tracy We used this marble wand to demonstrate and explore the concept behind the quotation above. When we surround ourselves with positive experiences, positive people and positive influences then we can be sure to have… {read more}
Printable Tool to Work on Focus
My mind wanders and for a second I forgot what led me here… I have one hand on the open fridge door, another one holding a stapler, and in the space between my twisted shoulder and my neck a phone balances awkwardly. I knew where I was going before all these distinct ideas merged into… {read more}
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: Teaching Non-Judgementalism
In part one of this series, I introduced the concept of mindfulness. In part two, we talked about how to focus our awareness. In this post, we see how mindfulness is the focus of awareness in the present moment without judgement. This takes a lot of practice. We have been taught our whole lives to judge… {read more}
How Can We Cultivate a Positive Attitude? A Workshop for Families
I wish I could say that I woke up every day like this… That just isn’t reality, though! You will know as well as I do that life is not always full of white sheets and sunshine. The never-ending laundry pile and a forecast of rain during school drop-off are only two of the inevitable challenges a… {read more}
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: How to Focus Awareness
Mindfulness can assist us to pay more attention to our everyday life. In part one of this series, I shared what mindfulness is and how I apply it as a therapist using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. I also gave an exercise that can explain the concept of mindfulness to children. The following exercise shows us that when… {read more}
