#53  Join Wendy Dickens and Heidi Mendenhall to discuss the importance of understanding and recognizing early milestones in our youngest children. Through personal experiences and research, they discuss available tools to all families that support understanding and identifying early milestones. Together they share local resources and programs that can help families and educators in this journey. And as always they lean into the power of relationships between families and educators to support young children through their milestone journey.

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https://agesandstages.com/

https://allaboutyoungchildren.org/

#52  Join Wendy Dickens, Heidi Mendenhall, and Special guest Jennifer Torres as they discuss family table talks!

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#51 Join Wendy Dickens and Heidi Mendenhall and listen to them share about what early education means, and how we can use lessons learned to support ACCELERATED learning and WHOLE child learning. 

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#50 Join Wendy Dickens, Heidi Mendenhall, and special guest Brin Greer as they discuss nature meditation for children and adults! 

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https://runwildmychild.com/sit-spotting-nature-meditation/

#49 Join Wendy Dickens, Heidi Mendenhall, and special guest Jennifer Torres as they all discuss how important school attendance is and ACES.

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https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/school-attendance-issues/

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

#48  Join Wendy Dickens and Heidi Mendenhall to discuss how to both identify your own needs in transitions as well as child needs and framing transitions to best support positive social-emotional growth and learning.

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https://childmind.org/article/how-can-we-help-kids-with-transitions/

#47  Join Wendy Dickens, Heidi Mendenhall, and special guest Danielle Bettmann as she shares some of her journeys to becoming a coach as well as her go-to pro tips of learning through the parenting journey. As always Wendy and Heidi share their own learnings and failings as well as connect us to local resources that can support our learning along the way.

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https://open.spotify.com/show/2uUQjQP6E9aB3TzWmnL2Yc?si=Ywk41xUVRla6X20ACP0zBw&dl_branch=1

#46  Join Wendy Dickens and Heidi Mendenhall as they discuss how having social connections help relieve stress.

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https://www.verywellmind.com/stress-and-social-support-research-3144460

#44 Join Wendy Dickens and Heidi Mendenhall as they discuss how sleep can help relieve stress!

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https://www.verywellmind.com/relationship-between-stress-and-sleep-3144945