News & Updates
How to Stop Freaking Out : The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Cool When Life Gets Chaotic publishes on September 10, 2024 and I’m so freaking (haha!) excited to share it with all of you!
For more details about my first book for kids, head over to the book page or scroll down for a list of podcasts.
Summer Survival Guide: New Podcast!
Summer is coming and your kids are going to be home all day — yikes! In this episode of the Mindful Mama Podcast, Hunter Clarke-Fields and I talk about how to survive and thrive this summer with your kids. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Chores and...
The Parenting Lesson of the Royal Wedding
I can’t stop thinking about the Royal Wedding. You bet your tushy we watched it. A friend came over with fascinators, homemade scones, and clotted cream. I broke a cardinal rule of parenting and woke my daughters up on a weekend morning, and we turned on the TV an...
How to Get Your Kids Off Their Screens
“Can we have some screen time?” I get this request from my daughters (ages 7 & 9) almost every afternoon. Sometimes I say yes, sometimes I say no. When I say no, sometimes my kids throw tantrums, but mostly they don’t. Mostly they find something else to do,...
How to Make Bedtime With Kids Easier
Bedtime can be rough, and not just for the kids. Folks get cranky, it’s hard to get motivated, and kids rarely fall asleep as quickly as we want them to. (In their defense, many of us adults also struggle with that same issue.) The reality is that bedtime is easier...
To Raise Resilient Kids, Be a Resilient Parent (in the NYTimes!)
I was recently interviewed for a piece in The New York Times entitled "To Raise Resilient Kids, Be a Resilient Parent." Here are some brief quotes from the article, written by Emily Popek. Let Emotions Happen Resilience depends on an understanding that emotions — even...
Making Time For Mindfulness (Podcast)
Another podcast conversation is up - once again on my friend Hunter Clarke-Field's Mindful Mama Podcast. We had a great time chatting about how to make time for mindfulness. You can listen to the full episode here! Some big takeaways include: 1. Meditation’s impact is...
Smile, Breathe, & Go Slowly: My Mantra for Difficult Moments
This weekend was a shitshow, y’all. Saturday morning found me dropping off one kid (not my own) who had spent the night at our house and then picking up my daughter, who had spent the night at another friends’ house. We had a busy day planned; it was our last chance...
How I Taught My Kids to Meditate
In my last post, I wrote about why I started teaching my kids to meditate. In this post, I’ll share how I taught them, and what I did when they lost interest. I want to start out by saying that I don’t think formal meditation is the best way to teach mindfulness to...
