What does it look like to build bounce, or resilience, into our teens? Well, I am still raising my teens and developing my own resilience, so I don’t …
Recovering from Big Feelings
I like to put my vulnerabilities out there, up front and center. I started this blog intending to write about building bounce with our children. …
Building Bounce in our Infants
Building Bounce can sound a little like inflating a basketball and dribbling it. Don’t worry, I am not encouraging you to dribble your baby! ;) …
Attuning With Our Teens
Parenting teenagers has been a HUGE learning curve for me. My own teen years were hard - I often felt unseen, misunderstood, and alone. As a mom, more …
RC’s, Validation, and Attunement… Oh My!
The title of this blog is aptly named because these concepts (relational circuits, validation, and attunement) were foreign to me, even as recently as …
Attuning with your Infant
Attuning is recognizing the emotional state someone else is in and meeting them there. (1) Attunement is important in all relationships, but is …
Gracefully Challenging Our Kids
Last time I shared about the importance of helping our kids mature and learn to do hard things. The follow up question usually is: how do I know …
Growing as a Family in Maturity
We recently added a new puppy to our household, bringing the dog count in our house to two. While we had considered adding a companion to our home for …
