Moving your family to a new place can be a challenge. From missing your old home to settling in, here's how to cope with feeling depressed after moving. I'm pretty lucky: both my family and my husband's are all here in Los Angeles within driving distance to our home. We also grew up here, went to colleges nearby, held jobs in the area, and still have our friends to hang out with. I can't imagine moving to a new place and losing all the roots and ties I'd developed all these years. But for many people, this is a reality. They move from everything they've ever known and settle in to a … [Read more...]
How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Reach Your Goals
Have your internal doubts kept you from reaching your goals? Learn the importance of silencing your inner critic and reach your goals once and for all. This post is brought to you by Activia. The content and opinions expressed below are mine. When we try to reach for our goals, we run into surprising resistance. It's not the obstacles that make it harder to get to where we want to be, or discouragement from others. It's ourselves. Activia hosted an inner voice interview asking women to share their goals and the factors holding them back. Turns out, 80% of the time, it was … [Read more...]
8 Reminders to Help You Overcome Obstacles
Are you struggling with an obstacle? These 8 reminders to help you overcome obstacles will get through the challenges. We'll all face obstacles throughout life, to varying degrees. These challenges could be as simple as losing a package in the mail or as dire as losing a job. And while our thoughts and action will reflect the severity of the obstacle, one this is certain: we can overcome it. Often, the obstacles we face in life are exactly what we needed at that moment to move in a different direction. My husband had lost his job in the non-profit industry during the recession almost a … [Read more...]
Be Where You Need to Be
Feeling frustrated with parenthood? Accept your current moment as the most important and be where you need to be. This mindset will change your outlook. Babies, toddlers and even older kids don’t follow our schedule. As babies, my kids woke up many times a night, sometimes a half hour after I'd just put them down. They nursed just as often, leaving me rooted to the couch or bed with not much else to do. Growing up isn't much help, either. As toddlers, they insisted on collecting every leaf around the block. Once back home, they'd explode in a tantrum because I told them they couldn't … [Read more...]
7 Reasons You’re Doing Fine as a Mom
Ever wonder whether you're doing enough for your kids? Check out these 7 reasons you're doing fine as a mom. We moms often wonder whether we're doing enough. We compare ourselves to others, or we feel guilty for working or not working. Or we worry we're screwing up our kids for the things we failed to do. But guess what: you're doing fine as a mom, and probably way better than you give yourself credit for. Here are 7 reasons you're doing fine as a mom: #1: You're reading this. Someone who goes through the trouble to click and read a parenting post is doing just fine in my books. The … [Read more...]
Small Habits to Improve Your Parenting
Looking for habits to improve your parenting? Don't set large goals. Use small, actionable habits that, over time, will help you improve. Stop losing my temper. Pay more attention to the kids. Find more time for myself. These are resolutions I've made at some point. But what happens? I forget or had too many goals to track, or I just lost motivation. These looming goals were too large to feel attainable, and I didn't have a concrete plan to actually make them happen. But then I learned the power of small resolutions—microresolutions—to attain your goals. Small habits to improve your … [Read more...]
Positive Parenting Resolutions You Can Actually Keep
We've been talking a lot about resolutions these days. Goals to establish for the coming year. Reviewing the last one. And wondering which resolutions matter the most. It's no different here on SSBE. Except instead of the typical ones, let's examine positive parenting resolutions. Positive parenting resolutions We can all stand to improve our parenting. What better way than to start with positive parenting tips you can actually keep. 1. Choose compassion over anger I heard this fantastic saying that our kids aren't giving us a hard time. They're having a hard time. Makes a difference in … [Read more...]
How to Stop Feeling Stressed and Start Enjoying Parenthood
Parenting stress can make your day ten times worse than it needs to be. Learn how to stop feeling like a stressed mom and start enjoying parenthood again. There's something about stress that makes your day ten times worse than it needs to be. This week, I drove to the library to drop off overdue only to find that it's closed. Great, I thought. Now I have to go back another day. I just wasted 20 minutes driving here for nothing. I'm so disorganized. Then it filters to the rest of my day. I got frustrated with my kindergartener when we had to walk back to his classroom for a forgotten … [Read more...]
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