This episode is about you appreciation.  Remember you? Remember you before you had kids, remember you when you were carefree and happy go lucky? When you had hobbies when you used to sleep in on the weekends, all the things that you used to do? Do you remember those things? It might have been a minute since you've thought about them. So take a moment, close your eyes and think back to when you were not mom. to when you were only you.  We all deserve to go back in time now and then and remember ourselves, what made us tick, what was important to us then, and try to carve our space for that person in your busy mom life.

Moms are always worried.  So many things all the time to worry about.  This episode is about what NOT to worry about, and how to replace the wasteful worrying and pre-worrying we tend to do with constructive solutions.  Let's normalize acknowledging that we can't control every aspect of our children's lives, but that we can teach them through modeling how to move through tough feelings and come out the other side.  It is helpful to notice and acknowledge our own baggage to be sure we aren't putting it onto our kids backs, and also to know when we are creating extra stress on ourselves by worrying about things that simply aren't a problem.  Stress is created by not acknowledging what IS, and trying to be somewhere you are not.  Be here now.  It's going to be ok.  Lets find constructive solutions to real problems, rather than wasting our prescious energy on pre-worrying. 

I interview Amy Williams, of Amy Williams Academy and Portland Montessori School about ways to connect with our children meaningfully and respectfully.  We discuss simple ways to make your children feel seen, and how to tune into the neutral times, not the amazing or terrible behavior times, which is MOST of the time.

Amy and I both worth with Children, Staff and Parents, and while her philosophy is Montessori and mine is Play Based, we use many of the same tools be cause underlying is the respect of the children we work with.

I'll be posting info about her Academy when she does a workshop upcoming about consent, so stay tuned!  http://www.amywilliamsacademy.com/

Miss Jessica, a Veteran pre-K teacher, curriculum coordinator and ECE expert and I chat about academics.  We hope to give parents less worries and allow them to enjoy reading with their children instead of pressuring them into more academic interest.  

We break down the reasons for the podcast, and explore seeing motherhood from the big picture perspective, instead of the usual method of life sucking us into the minutia.