When Kids Worry About Their Bodies: What Parents Can Do

It starts subtly. Maybe your child starts asking if a food will “make them fat.”Maybe they avoid wearing certain clothes.Maybe they say something like, “I don’t like my stomach,” or start comparing their body to others. It’s natural to feel unsure in these moments. You want to say the right thing. You want to protect […]

When Food Talk Hurts: What Our Words Teach Our Kids

What are everyday food comments teaching our kids – and how can we break the cycle? ✨ “I was so bad today, I ate dessert.” ✨ “I’ll be good tomorrow and just have a salad.” ✨ “Cheat day!” ✨ “I need to burn all this off later.” ✨ “I gave in and had pizza.” ✨ […]

My Personal Transformation Through Conscious Parenting

For someone who likes to be in control and desired to be a mother so badly and do everything right, motherhood came to me like a shock.

Why do we get triggered by our children’s behaviors?

We often find ourselves extremely frustrated with certain behaviors, or we become increasingly less patient, and we end up screaming, threatening, punishing, etc. What happened?

Children teach us important things about ourselves if we are only willing to listen

Being a parent is riveting; when you think you have something covered, there comes your child to show you how much work you still have left to do.

Let’s talk about
mother-blame

I realized how deeply permeated the discourse of “mother-blame” is in our society and how strongly it reinstates patriarchal motherhood’s pragmatics.

To snack or
not to snack

We often find ourselves frustrated because our children “won’t sit” at the table to have a meal.