Health esteem? Whaaat? I’ve heard of self esteem but now I’m confused. Good self esteem is when your child can see their own worth and unique abilities and have a high sense of personal value....
I just heard the most amazing thing. An experiment showed a plant that was not watered communicated that a drought was happening to other plants nearby. So even if the nearby plants were being adequately watered they shrank their pores in an expectation...
(No, I’m not talking about passing gas!) No matter how much you love what you’re doing, sooner or later you’re going to run out of momentum. Marathoners call it hitting the wall, sailors call it the doldrums, and mamas call it… afternoon....
One of my practice members called me for a doctor’s note for her daughter. She’d twisted her ankle over the weekend and was hobbling and in pain. When she went to her PE class with a swollen ankle, the teacher insisted she needed...
Mamas, this one’s for you! There are plenty of folks out there ready and willing to tell you that you are not a good enough parent. You put your baby to sleep the wrong way, you feed your toddler the wrong food, you give your 10-year-old...
You probably know that a blue-eyed baby got their eye color from both mom and their dad (it requires one gene from each parent to express this recessive trait). But did you know that your child can inherit your emotional responses too? And there is...
Does this sound familiar? You’re at the grocery store, surrounded by bounteous food, trying to imagine what would be good for dinner — and you’re as frozen as the pizzas behind the glass door. The frozen pizzas you try to keep from serving every other...
Power yoga. Power smoothie. Powerlifting. Power rangers (yes, I’m a mom). Power is a buzz word right now. (Paleo is too but that’s another blog.)...
Remember the time before you had kids? Remember the sweet ideas you had about what being a mom would be like? Idyllic days of wonder and outdoor adventures. Moments of learning (for both you and your child!). Hugs, kisses and cuddles before...
Years ago we were on a family vacation with our dear friends and their daughters. We were driving the road to Hana in Hawaii. This road winds back and forth for 3 hours on what’s essentially a super-curvy 2-lane highway....