1- Why do kids not like independent play and how to foster that skill?
Answer: If babies and children weren’t born with the skill of independent play, the world wouldn’t have survived. Imagine the cave mom and dad who had to protect their kids from wild animals, hunt for food and...
Why is this a part of healing ourselves? Because toxic people are soul-suckers. They take up our precious energy and trap us in a never-ending and doomed-to-fail cycle of trying to please them.
If we don’t learn to deal with them, we will spend our entire lives in a rat wheel, getting no...
Bad News: No one is coming to save you.
Good News: You're all you need to save yourself.6
Research also shows that people who believe in a Higher Power do better in life, so in other words, your emaan (faith) is also going to help!
There are three steps to the healing process as...
1- Pray (or make an intention)
Someone told me a long time ago to make dua (pray) that I can see my own shortcomings. It's truly an amazing dua... I'm SO grateful to Allah for showing me a mirror and showing me where I need to grow as a person. This kind of self-awareness is...
Sometimes parents post here saying, “My kid hit me.. what should I do? She hit me so hard that I got a bruise! How do we positive Discipline THAT?!”
And I think what they’re saying is, “I’m feeling attacked by my kid. This is not fair. It doesn’t feel...
It’s time for our #dontworrylist again
We’ve been talking about what worries us about our kids. What would happen if we didn’t worry etc. and worry robs us of our ability to enjoy our kids.
Also, worrying takes up precious energy.
You want to be 100% sure that you’re...
Trauma simply means that the brain's natural course of development was disturbed. The reason may be anything from emotional neglect (parents didn't acknowledge your emotions or attempted to discount them) to severe childhood abuse.
The brain never forgets what happened to it even in childhood
The...
It’s summer and I’ve gotten PMs from moms asking what kind of “academic activities” they can do for their kids to teach them stuff. Yet other moms are worried their kids won’t be “preschool ready” at age 3/4 and how can they catch them up on their...
#play Post 3
Have you heard of Cal Tech? I’m sure that rang a bell for most of you as it did for me and I’m as aware of technological companies as I am of the rare bird species in Antarctica (are there even birds in Antarctica? )
Anyway, you’ve probably heard of it because of...