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8 Self-Care Tips for New Moms

8/30/2018

8 Self-Care Tips for New Moms

Guest Article by Jenny Wise

Congratulations on your new bundle of joy!

The journey ahead is full of heartwarming moments, but there will also be some challenges too. One of them is that taking care of your child will take a lot of your energy and time and it may leave you feeling overwhelmed. Self-care helps you to put your mind, body, and spirit at an excellent state to take care of your baby.

Here are eight ways you can incorporate self-care into your life

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Back-to-School Season: Creating a Better Routine for Better Sleep

8/24/2018

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Back-to-School Season: Creating a Better Routine for
Better Sleep
submitted by Ashley Taylor

As millions of American households prepare for the back-to-school season, it’s important to remember that finding a routine for better sleep and overall well-being is imperative for kids of all ages, and it’s beneficial for parents, too. Getting good rest can have a positive effect on a child’s ability to perform in class, his mood, and his physical health, helping him stay energized and ready to tackle the day. It’s not just about the quantity of sleep, but the quality as well. That’s why it’s so important to ensure your child starts preparing for school at least a week ahead of time, as summer schedules often differ from the ones we keep when school is in session.

It will also help if you ease your child into it all. Attempting to have him change his activities and bedtime the night before school starts will likely only lead to disaster. However, by starting the changes a little ahead of time, you’ll be helping him adjust slowly, which will reduce stress at the same time -- for everyone.

Keep reading for some tips on how to create a better routine for your child when school starts.

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Parenting Your Inner Child

8/10/2018

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Raising children often brings up memories of our own childhoods. There are experiences that are both negative as well positive memories from childhood. For many people, remembering the positive can be difficult if they were exposed to neglect, abandonment, abuse and disregard for their very existence. If a child is forced to abandon that very nature that nurtures them so that they can “fit” into the norm and not be celebrated as a unique and amazing person of difference- which I believe is true of each one of us- it leaves the child feeling worthless, alone and unfulfilled.

And as we are confronted with these memories that have been programmed into automatic responses from which we have survived, is it time to bring a new perspective to the memory as well as to the response we created to sustain us?
At times when I feel nervous about a new situation, I can immediately go into having a full-blown stomach ache that almost disables me. It takes me back to being 5 or 6 years old and how I often felt about going to school. At the time, the stomach ache worked for me as it allowed me to stay home from school and feel more secure. One would question how well that truly worked, but in the mind of a 6-year-old, it truly worked! As my life progressed into adulthood, these stomach aches would occur with much intensity and yet upon medical testing, nothing appeared to support a cause. Then came the day that I awakened and began to ask some different questions about this.

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8 Self-Care Tips for New Moms

8 Self-Care Tips for New Moms

Guest Article by Jenny Wise

Back-to-School Season: Creating a Better Routine for Better Sleep

Back-to-School Season: Creating a Better Routine for
Better Sleep
submitted by Ashley Taylor

Parenting Your Inner Child

Mary Dravis-Parrish, CBF, CFMW

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Mary Dravis-Parrish, CBF, CFMW

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8 Self-Care Tips for New Moms

Guest Article by Jenny Wise

Back-to-School Season: Creating a Better Routine for
Better Sleep
submitted by Ashley Taylor