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There are emotional aspects of fashion that can significantly impact our daily lives, especially during transitional phases like pregnancy and postpartum. Sofia Champalanne Calcagno, a seasoned wardrobe stylist with over 15 years of experience in the fashion industry, credits her international upbringing between Buenos Aires, LA, and Miami to greatly influencing her unique approach to fashion and style. Sofia shares her process for helping clients discover their personal style and create a versatile, functional wardrobe at all stages of life. With the fashion landscape evolving rapidly, she shares her insights on how the industry has changed with the onset of COVID-19 and offers practical advice for individuals struggling to dress themselves in this new era. She reveals her top three essential fashion items for every woman, whether they're moms or not. 

Tip of the Week: Involve your child in the dressing process 

Allowing children to dress themselves promotes the development of both gross and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills include actions like pulling clothing over their heads, while fine motor skills involve tasks like buttoning or zipping. Selecting clothing for the day gives children a sense of autonomy and allows them to make choices. It's a small step towards developing decision-making skills. 

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It is a parent’s life mission to help their children reach their highest potential. The Gordon School in Miami, Florida has set out to create a child-centered environment where children of all developmental stages can thrive. Through their early childhood, day school and Tikvah Center, a specialized program for children on the autism spectrum, there are various opportunities for inclusion, both in the classroom and in social settings. Nicole Sperling is the admissions director of The Gordon School and explains the advantages of early childhood inclusion and how it helps develop crucial communication skills. She opens up about her experiences as a mother, educator and marketer, and shares tips for a school application process.

Tata’s Tip of the Week: Socialize with your kids

Get out there and socialize! Allow you and your child to meet new people. The more they socialize, the stronger language skills they will have. It helps promote non-verbal communication skills like eye contact and shaking someone’s hand.  

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Travel often, create lasting memories and strong connections with your family and discover the world together. Travel is an educational opportunity which can help stimulate your children’s minds by boosting their creativity and imagination as well as help with language, literacy and social development. Dorie Fader Teitelbaum is a mom of two and founder of Andiamo Travel, a luxury travel and lifestyle concierge that offers customized experiences and journeys around the globe. She shares her tips for traveling, with or without kids, from finding the right hotel and booking flights to dinner reservations and activities on the ground. She opens up about how her deep passion for travel inspired her to launch Andiamo ("Let's Go" in Italian) after years as a practicing lawyer. She also weighs in on balancing motherhood while running her own company and the lessons learned.

Tata's Tip of the Week: How to Travel with Your Child

Prepare your child for a trip: bring snacks, crafts for a project, books

Get your child on the schedule of the place you are visiting

Tata's Travel Recommendations for Kids:

Montessori Story Book - 2-5 year olds

On the Plane Activity Book- 5-8 year olds

Tiny & Mighty Clever Toy Creations

Princess Sticker Book Activity

Dorie's Travel Recommendations for Kids:

Flyaway Kids Bed - inflatable bed for infants and toddlers to sleep on plane

BabyQuip - baby equipment rentals from cribs to toys

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The only thing harder than being a parent, is being a new parent. That's according to ZenHippo Founder Loren Klein. She believes community, education, and mindful play can radically transform the early years of parenting – so she set out to create ZenHippo, a Palm Beach based collective of local experts offering talks and classes for expecting and new parents, caregivers, babies and toddlers. She opens up about her career as a social worker and teacher to mother of three, and how her parenthood journey inspired her to program early childhood play-based classes for children ages 0-3, from music and yoga to speech and language and even infant massage.

Tata’s Tip of the Week: Use visuals when you are speaking with your child

Our brain’s make connections when using our senses. Use a visual in addition to verbalization. Show your child the option of a visual. The more input you add, the easier it is to learn new words and language.

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Sleep training is life-changing. Not only does it play a crucial role in your child's healthy growth and development, but it's equally as important for parents' well-being. Melissa Perry, founder and lead baby and toddler sleep consultant. of The Cradle Coach, is dedicated to helping tired families give their child the best sleep possible through customized sleep training plans. She explains how a baby's feeding schedule is highly correlated with early sleep training techniques and puts a big emphasis on routine and structure early on in a child's life.

Tata's Tip of the Week: Give Your Child Choices

Giving your child choices gives them the power to make a decision for themselves. Asking an open-ended question can often overwhelm children, so provide them with options. They become involved in the conversation, but don't feel as much pressure.

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Sensory play is a lot of fun. It offers many benefits for child development including motor skills, emotional regulation and supports brain development. Smocked Art founder Rachel Silver served as an elementary art teacher in Miami for eight years before starting Smocked in 2020 during the Covid pandemic as a way to stimulate and engage her two young daughters. She has since built a curriculum of classes - from newborn to toddlers and their caregivers - that include thematic art activities each week using play dough and safe ingredients like beans, flour, cereal and water. She explains the importance of sensory exposure at an early age and how she designs her classes to help children socialize, engage in art making, and learn valuable skills for the future.

Tata’s Tip of the Week: Importance of Sensory Play

Start at a young age and stimulate your child with sensory play. Create sensory bins and use ingredients like rice, beans, flour, sand to expose your child to different textures and expands on their senses.

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Does the thought of potty training scare you? You're not alone. Pelvic floor physical therapist Dr. Lea Feghali PT, MPEd, DPT is educates children and parents about the pre-training and potty-training process. She helps children build lifelong toilet habits and creates a safe environment for addressing potty training, bedwetting, constipation, soiling/poop accidents and daytime accidents. She also educates on overall pelvic health for women from period pain to sexual pain and all of the changes that come with pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause.

Tata's Tip of the Week: Speaking with your Child from 0-3 months

Take advantage of the 0-3 month baby developmental phase. At this age. your child will start paying attention - from vision to sound. It's important to be animated, get face to face, make eye contact and smile when communicating with your newborn.

Follow @drleafeghali @thedayilearned

Learn more about her practice: Learn With Dr. Lea

Check out her potty training books "The Day I Learned"

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Many people swear by the benefits of acupuncture when they’re trying to conceive. Licensed acupuncturists often work with people who are hoping to get pregnant — both individuals and couples alike. Dr. Andrea Orvieto of SOFLA Acupuncture & Wellness explains the science behind acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine to heal various women's health related issues.

Tata's Tip of the Week: Take a Break & Reset

It's ok for parents, children, caretakers to take a break and reset.

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The path to parenthood is changing and evolving rapidly, in part to the rise of surrogacy as the most successful infertility treatment with a 75% success rate. Nazca Fontes, founder, and executive chairman of ConceiveAbilities, a full-service global surrogacy agency with 25 years of experience, shares how the agency is building happy families through their Matching Matters program, ensuring the right match between a gestational surrogate and intended parents the first time, and offering care and support through the journey. She explains the adaptation of surrogacy over the years among all families including celebrities, legal reform, myths and more.

Tata’s Tip of the Week: Narrating play using small sentences and phrases

Use small phrases and words to talk about what your child is doing. You don’t need to talk in sentences about exactly what your child is doing. You can also narrate what you are doing. Use two to three word phrases, keep it simple and add in wait time.

Follow @ConceiveAbilities and learn more here about ConceiveAbilities

Listen to their surrogacy podcast and check out their Milk Bank Challenge where you can pump, ship and donate breast milk

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Encouraging hands-on experiences in early childhood education is a great way to stimulate learning. City Kid NY specializes in developing the whole child, focusing on a well-rounded curriculum outside of the classroom. Founders Jaclyn Rosenberg and Maggie Madden, together with a team of top educators from public and private schools, offer tutoring, test prep, art classes and toddler pods, that make learning accessible for all students. Their own career journeys inside the classroom inspired them to engage with children in a more approachable way through field trips, creative programs and more.

Tata's Tip of the Week: Make Comments

Remark or observe something your child is doing. Your child learns by what you say to them and imitates what you teach them. Make about two or three observations or comments from scent and sight to taste and touch.

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