Parent with appreciation and reason!

Appreciate where your child is developmentally- at this time. Don’t push the river when it comes to growth, learning and development. It is easy to see the potential for your child’s development, but the truth is that development requires individual readiness, appropriate life experiences and timing. As long as your child isn’t hurting themselves or anyone else, relax for a minute. Rather than expunging, finding fault with or stressing over your child’s current state of being, accept it.

Embrace the reality of where you child is at, and provide structure and supports for your child. Pay attention and listen to what your child is feeling and expressing. At every age and stage and over the course of time, necessary learning opportunities (more…)

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You and The New Year!

This is the time of year that everyone and everything is abuzz with plans, down-time, and anticipation of what is to unfold in the year ahead. You become aware of the life you have led up until this point and ponder what the future may hold. Even if you don’t subscribe to officially making resolutions for the New Year, you can approach this exercise as a time to (more…)

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Give the Gift of Your Presence: Stress Less Over the Holidays!

Give the Gift of Your Presence: Stress Less over The Holidays! 

I hope you have a good holiday season and overall holiday experience!  Below you can see 2 lists that I have created to help you achieve just that! The first list defines what it means to be present, while the second list gives you supportive ideas to help you de-stress, so that you can become more relaxed, centered and  fully present. When you are more  present within yourself, you can be more present (more…)

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Stay Focused on Your Dreams!

When you were a small child, you dreamed without reserve and believed in the power of your dreams. As time elapsed, perhaps you didn’t get the support you needed to fully explore your dreams or doubted the importance of what you spent your time pretending and daydreaming about. Still, those early dreams had merit and were an extension of who you are. For many, over time, with negative feedback or the realities and responsibilities of life, your once open expanse of inner imaginings changed. Only you know the extent and scope of those changes, parts once awakened, now perhaps dimmed.

When you stop, meditate, re-evaluate your life today, see where your childlike dreams reside. Are they still (more…)

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Surviving Back-To-School Stress!

I want to first acknowledge and congratulate you on surviving the close of summer, and hope you accumulated enough relaxation and perspective to carry you through for a while! Now, as a parent you must deal with the onset of the fall chaos and the process of beginning again with a whole new school year ahead. (more…)

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Embrace transformation!

You know that it is time for a change and even if it hurts, change is good. Sometimes when you are tired with the status quo, need a new way or are pushed to the wall, conscious change is the only way. (more…)

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