Listen to Your Child
If we want our kids to trust their bodies and for others to hear when they establish a boundary about their body, it starts with us. Let’s hear them, listen, and respect their requests.
A Toddler's Tantrum
Please hear this: Your toddler's tantrum says NOTHING about you as a parent. YOU are doing great. And YOU did not mess this whole parenting thing up. BYE GUILT!
Postpartum Advice
If I could go back and give myself just
10 words of postpartum advice, it would be...
10 words of postpartum advice, it would be...
The Motherhood Lens
We have all created our own lens of motherhood. We have internalized an ideal or figure of who we think a good mom is, and we try too hard to become her.
Normalizing
We are OUT with the old school way of parenting: children being seen not heard, blind obedience, listening to authority OR ELSE. This often leads to 1 of 2 outcomes.
Instead of 'You're Okay'
Empathy is the willingness to walk in another person’s shoes, for the purpose of better understanding that person’s point of view. You can tell when a person lacks empathy, because they are often self-centered, they struggle to see the world outside of their own perspective, and they are dismissive of another’s feelings.
Welcome Little Wonder & Co.
Be Mindful is proud to welcome Little Wonder & Co. as a retailer for Be Mindful. Little Wonder & Co is a boutique, mother-curated retailer of sustainable and eco-conscious goods for newborns, babies, and children between the age of 0 and 6.
Growing Is a Process
Just a reminder that growing into a healthy and mature human is a process (& something that none of us have arrived at).
Doing The Best You Can
This is my favorite mantra of all time. “I did the best I could with the info I had at the time.” I used it before parenthood and it’s even more applicable now. Moms and dads—we don’t know what we don’t know.
All I Do As a Mom
Today I had a to do list a mile long and there was no space/time for tidying mess, sorting clothes, and cleaning the house.
Let Your Kids See You and Your Partner
Our kids feel soothed seeing their parents do the things they know mean their parents care about one another.