Transforming the Toddler Years
The Blog
“Parenting is really one big, beautiful story and
I love telling it.”
Cara Tyrrell, Founder Core4Parenting
Contributing Writer: Nadine Stille
Raising kind kids starts with modeling kindness toward yourself - through making space for your own goals, dreams, and needs. These tips help you grow personally while nurturing your children’s growth, too.
You’re raising kind kids, the next generation of c...
Remember who I am.
Yep, that is the number one thing I wish I'd done when my kids were tiny.
Instead, I turned over every part of myself to them.
Gave until I had nothing left to give, and then, pushed harder.
Of course our job is to meet their needs when they can't, particularly as in...
Gluten and I hate each other. Okay, that's not entirely true. It’s more like a double dutch jump rope rhyme:
I love gluten but it hates me. When I eat it, I feel icky!
I don't have celiacs or even a ‘gluten sensitive’ diagnosis, but I do know my body.
When I indulge in gluteny-goodness ...
I just got back from two weeks on the road. I racked up:
- Three climates
- two time zones
- and a whole lot of amazing adventures.
I was in Colorado, meeting clients, writing, and exploring the Rocky Mountains.
The mornings started at 24 degrees, the afternoons finished at 60 but felt like 8...
It was a quiet summer Saturday morning. I was up early, a cup of hot coffee in my hand while momming mantras ran through my mind: I will stay calm today. I WILL stay calm today. I can do this.
The day before with my 4 year old had been hard. The day before that, even harder. Honestly, it had j...
I have a love/hate relationship with journaling. As in, I LOVE the idea of it: pick the prettiest one, get my special pen, sit in a quiet space, then climb so far into my head that I don’t know what to write, freeze, and end up reinforcing my belief that I’m bad at journaling.
I want to do it. ...
You’ve heard this quip, right? It’s along the lines of, put your money where your mouth is and no pain - no gain.
In plain speak, we tend to take action when we feel invested.
For example:
Your friend gives you free access to her newest online course and you never login, not even once -
...
In the first article of the series, Welcome to the World Little One, we explored your baby’s basic survival needs during the newborn phase.
Today we tackle self-soothing.
Google it and you get a lot about babies, kids, and the ability to fall asleep and calm down by themselves. Yes, that is the ...
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...
