Transforming the Toddler Years
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“Parenting is really one big, beautiful story and
I love telling it.”
Cara Tyrrell, Founder Core4Parenting
Why your baby often crawls backwards before forwards.
Dirty Dancing is one of my favorite movies of all time. Seriously, I was ten years old when the movie came out, and spent two years begging my parents to let me watch it, primarily because I loved dancing so much.Â
And at the ripe old age of 12...
You’ve heard this quip, right? It’s along the lines of, put your money where your mouth is and no pain - no gain. Â
In plain speak, we tend to take action when we feel invested.Â
For example:
Your friend gives you free access to her newest online course and you never login, not even once -
...We come into the world as brand new, tiny humans with three basic survival needs: food, shelter and sleep. Shelter represents safety. Food represents nourishment and growth. Sleep is the foundation of it all.Â
Your newly born baby isn’t able to control any of these things.Â
You, their parent
...Toddlers dump buckets. It’s in their DNA. Well, if not their DNA it is in their healthy development milestone checklist.
Buckets of toys.
Buckets of sand.
Buckets of dad’s nuts and bolt’s stash that he mistakenly left out the night before when fixing … a toy.
It’s a natural kid impulse - emptyin...
Dear Reader, I wrote this on September 4th, 2018. Reading through it nearly three years to the day, I take it as a much needed reminder that every season of our life is just that - and then there is another. Today, I still work really hard but I’m not strung out, and I control my time. To apply pers...