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Fostering Body Positivity From Birth conscious parenting emotional awareness mom life motherhood parenting tips self identity sense of self

“Those pants don't really do you any justice.”

 

My (then) best friend said this to me as we were getting ready to go out dancing for the night. 

 

I was 18 years old and had spent adolescence and young adulthood hating my body. I self described as...

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Why You Shouldn't Tell Kids to "Stop Crying" and What to Say Instead conscious parenting emotional awareness emotional regulation parenting

Toddlers cry. A lot. It’s their primary way of communicating, well – everything. 

How they feel. What they are thinking. Their opinions. And their preferences as their tiny-little belief systems develop. 

In fact, crying is a healthy sign of early development. Kids who never...

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Feeling Triggered All the Time? The #1 Strategy for Turning Reactions into Responses behavior character conscious parenting emotional awareness emotional regulation mom life parenting tips

 How many emotional triggers do you field in a day? Don’t answer that, because you likely can’t.

 

Your toddlers and preschoolers are master button pushers and trigger your conscious and subconscious reactions, often without even trying.

You want to sit inside a level of...

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Cara Tyrrell @Core4Parenting
Ep 7. Raising Successful Kids Skill #2 - Emotional Regulation
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Ep 7. Raising Successful Kids Skill #2 - Emotional Regulation character conscious parenting core4 emotional awareness emotional intelligence emotional regulation eq skills

Hey mamas, welcome back. I'm so excited that we are in the depths of our six part series.  Highlighting the five essential skills that you need to practice with your child every day to raise them into great human beings who add value to the world.  Today we are on skill number two out...

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