1- Why do kids not like independent play and how to foster that skill?
Answer: If babies and children werenât born with the skill of independent play, the world wouldnât have survived. Imagine the cave mom and dad who had to protect their kids from wild animals, hunt for food and struggle for basic...
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 donât learn to deal with them, we will spend our entire lives in a rat wheel, getting no where and ...
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 a...
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 trul...
 Sometimes parents post here saying, âMy kid hit me.. what should I do? She hit me so hard that I got a bruise! How do we positive Discipline THAT?!â
And I think what theyâre saying is, âIâm feeling attacked by my kid. This is not fair. It doesnât feel very fair. Iâm the parent. I should be respect...
Itâs time for our #dontworrylist again đ
Weâve been talking about what worries us about our kids. What would happen if we didnât 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 youâre worried about the right thi...
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 ...
Itâs summer and Iâve gotten PMs from moms asking what kind of âacademic activitiesâ they can do for their kids to teach them stuff. Yet other moms are worried their kids wonât be âpreschool readyâ at age 3/4 and how can they catch them up on their alphabet and counting. Some moms are worried that th...
#play Post 3
Have you heard of Cal Tech? Iâm sure that rang a bell for most of you as it did for me and Iâm as aware of technological companies as I am of the rare bird species in Antarctica (are there even birds in Antarctica? đ¤)
Anyway, youâve probably heard of it because of itâs parent company ...