One of you sent me this question recently, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think almost every parent of more than one young kid has lived some version of this exact night.
They are very close and have a dynamic where the older one will start to get dysregulated, tired, hungry,...
Over the summer, my daughters and I started a book club. It came from the realization that all our reading time was spent with us all reading independently. I started to miss reading and having conversations together. As they enter puberty, I also want to stay connected with them, talk about im...
Last year, early in the school year, my daughter was completely fine on the ride home. We were all having a great ride home catching up on our day. We pulled into the driveway, walked inside, and immediately dropped on the kitchen floor. She wasn’t crying or upset. Just…cooked. 🔥 She wouldn't m...
I've had the same conversation twice in the past few weeks with two different parents, two very different kids, and the same frustration.
The first flat out said, "I don't like when my kids lie. It makes me really mad. I don't mind if they do something they're not supposed to. We can figure tha...
"Mine! That's MINE!"
He's 3, and the floaty is technically his. He carried it all the way in from the car very proudly, the large plastic device nearly bigger than him. Once we finally arrived at the pool, he set it down to get his sunscreen on and shoes off.
In those 4 seconds of putting it do...
After reading this, you'll know why your child's summer dysregulation isn't regression and what to actually do in the first week before the whole thing unravels.
It was early morning and I was in the kitchen when I heard my 3-year-old, full volume, losing it at his older sister.
His screaming i...
I'm writing this from my parent-in-law’s home.
We've been traveling for a few days now and it has been a lot. Flights getting canceled, sleep all off, extended family dynamics doing what extended family dynamics do, and me just trying to parent through all of it in the middle of the chaos.
Then...
A mom in our community recently wrote in with something that took courage to share.
She's a homeschooling mom so she’s home with her two young daughters all day, every day, rotating between being their parent and their teacher and their referee. She wrote in after reading my newsletter about th...
My oldest just turned 9 and I keep thinking to myself, “Where did the time go??”
I remember when they were toddlers. I had 2 under 2 and those years felt endless.
Every day was exhausting, relentless, survival mode. I couldn't wait for them to be more independent.
To dress themselves, make thei...
You walk into the room and see one kid hovering, smirking or looking away.
The other one’s crying.
And you know something just happened.
Maybe someone grabbed something.
Maybe someone knocked over the blocks.
Maybe your older child did that quiet, calculated thing that makes your toddler scream...
A mom told me recently, “They were fine one second, then suddenly it’s this huge meltdown over who walked into the house first.”
She was exhausted. Not from the yelling itself but from feeling like she had to play judge and jury. Again. And again and again.
“I’m constantly deciding who’s right,...
There are nights when my husband handles bedtime, and I try to take a moment for myself. The lights are low, the house is quieting down, and I finally sit. And then I hear the creak of a door. Footsteps. A voice. “Mommy, can you tuck me in?”
Some nights I’m patient. Other nights I snap. “Daddy ...
