Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
A Parent’s Guide to Self-Regulation by Dr. Amber Thornton (Book Excerpt)
August 28th, 2024
Excerpted from A Parent’s Guide to Self-Regulation by Dr. Amber Thornton. Copyright © 2024 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, NY. All rights reserved. THE PERFECTLY RESPONSIVE PARENT MYTH Prior to becoming a parent, I recall reflecting a bit on what my childhood was like. I thought about ...
EAT SLEEP TANTRUM REPEAT by Rebekah Diamond, MD (Book Excerpt)
August 20th, 2024
PLAY IT SAFE Keeping Safety—and Fun!— Front and Center as Your Child Explores Free Play In a world of mounting parental anxiety, it’s harder than ever to know what you should actually worry about. Helicopter parenting is so 2004, and #SnowplowParenting, where parents push all obstacles out of the way, was trending ...
Standup to Bullying This School Year: Protecting Autistic Children and Those with Disabilities By Jeanette Paxia
August 19th, 2024
Children across the country are headed back to school and it’s the perfect time to discuss an age-old problem that continues to get worse: bullying. Last year, The Boys & Girls Club of America found that 40 percent of students reported that they were bullied on school property. More so, ...
Wild Mothering by Tami Lynn Kent (Book Excerpt)
August 9th, 2024
Cultivating the Positive In our family, our overall focus is to cultivate the positive by making time to play, connect, replenish, and have fun. Even chores or homework can be enjoyable when approached as opportunities to connect as a team. We also encourage each member of the family to identify their ...
5 Ways You Can Support Your Child in Their Sports Activities
August 9th, 2024
[caption id="attachment_32405" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash[/caption] Sports offer a plethora of benefits to children, from improving coordination, boosting self-confidence, and enhancing social skills to building strength and optimizing health. If your little one is about to start their sports journey, here are five ways you can constructively ...
TOO TIRED TO FIGHT by Erin and Stephen Mitchell – Book Excerpt
August 2nd, 2024
What Kind Of Couple Relationship Do We Want To Have? Imagine a situation where you find yourself pushed to the breaking point. Maybe it’s first thing in the morning. You were up with your child several times during the night. Now you’re exhausted, getting breakfast ready for everyone, when your partner ...
Greater than the forces: How to keep manifesting, even in strange cosmic times by Pamela Francis
April 6th, 2024
I love MotherhoodLaterThanSooner and I continue to haunt this place like The Ghost of Writers Past, but I am also out there shaking up the blogosphere in various ways across myriad sites. Here's one I recently published on Medium.com, where they pay me pennies a year to provide content for ...
Pathways to Parenthood (Excerpt from A Family, Maybe: Two Dads, Two Babies, and the Court Cases That Brought Us Together) by Lane Igoudin
February 26th, 2024
My earliest knowledge about gay parenting comes from, of all places, Newsweek. Back in 1996, working a student job at Stanford News Service, I picked up a glossy issue from a stack of magazines that came in, intrigued by the cover blurb, “Gay Families Come Out.” Those were different times for ...
I WASN’T KIDDING, NOW, I AM by Rory J. Hill (Book Excerpt)
February 21st, 2024
HUMBLE BEGINNING: “I have to (or must) be smarter than these little kids” From a panicked uncle....ME! 60 Second Scream The first time, I babysat my niece & nephews, I did not have a clue about what to do with them. My sister just told me to drive them to the local park ...
Seeking Your Midlife Atrium Excerpt. from Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age by Chip Conley (Courtesy of Little, Brown Spark)
January 8th, 2024
We’re living longer than ever before. Some people think this means we’re going to be old longer. Anthropologist and author Mary Catherine Bateson says we’re thinking about this all wrong. Our extra longevity means we’re not old longer but in midlife longer. Middle age has expanded, just like our waistline. ...
