If you’d like to know more about me, Ash Arinez, you can find me on Instagram at @AshArinez and you can also follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more. Don’t forget to visit AshArinez.com for more content or to sign up for my newsletter.

In this four-part series, we're going over the Thieves of Motherhood and first up is time.

We can’t do much about time stealing our days, but I do have six tips on how to use time to benefit you whether it’s a good day or a challenging one.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash Arinez, you can find me on Instagram at @AshArinez and you can also follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more. Don’t forget to visit AshArinez.com for more content or to sign up for my newsletter.

I want to share what we’re doing as a family to have a laidback summer and to encourage you to make your summer yours with three tips. 

In this episode, I mention a summer bucket list that is free to download. You can find it here.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash Arinez, you can find me on Instagram at @AshArinez and you can also follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more. Don’t forget to visit AshArinez.com for more content or to sign up for my newsletter.

Y’all, we are back. If this is your first time listening, thank you for being here and if you’re joining me again, it’s so good to have you back.

If you’re new, you probably looked for older episodes and couldn’t find any. If you’re returning, this is showing up in your feed as episode one. Let me explain why and where I've been.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash Arinez, you can find me on Instagram at @AshArinez and you can also follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more. Don’t forget to visit AshArinez.com for more content or to sign up for my newsletter.

When I first started following Dr. Joy of My Modern Parenting on Instagram, I didn’t put two and two together that she was an advocate for the gentle parenting philosophy. I just knew that I loved what she was sharing and it was what I had been trying to do with my two children.  Today Dr. Joy will be sharing more about that parenting philosophy that I personally try to practice every day.

You can find Dr. Joy on Instagram or at MyModernParenting.com.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash, find me on Instagram at @AshArinez or follow @TellAMother for more on motherhood.

Today you’ll be hearing from our first guest of season two. Tierney Cashman is a mom who has quite a bit on her plate and she’s handling it all with grace, forgiveness and self-awareness that is so relatable. I am certain that you’ll be encouraged as you laugh along with us - even as we touch on some serious topics.

Be sure to follow Authentic Motherhood by Tierney Cashman on Facebook. Here's the "cool mom" piece that Tierney wrote.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash, find me on Instagram at @AshArinez or follow @TellAMother for more on motherhood.

’ve never been crazy about summers – not even when I was younger. Then I became a mom and I wanted to make summers memorable for my daughters. As much as I want that, I also know that summer is very tiring for so many of us. That’s why I want to share a few thoughts on summer and motherhood and this time I’m going off-script to share three ideas with you.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash, find me on Instagram at @AshArinez or follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more.

This podcast episode is not what I was originally going to publish, but the last few weeks have been a challenge for so many in our country and I want to talk about that in this episode.  We will never be able to fully prepare for the next time tragedy hits, but I hope that this episode has helped you feel more confident in the fact that you will know how to love your child best the next time their world is affected by unimaginable sadness.

If you’d like to know more about me, Ash, find me on Instagram at @AshArinez or follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more.

Resources for Parents:
Talking to Children About Tragedies - National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
 Talking with Children About Tragedies and Other News Events - American Academy of Pediatrics

Sources:
An Age by Age Guide to Talking to Children About Mass Shootings - The New York Times
Guide for When Bad Things Happen - Dr. Becky Kennedy

Welcome to season two of Tell a Mother. Today we’re diving into what it means to be a mom with anxiety and some ways to work through it.
 
If you’d like to know more about me, Ash, find me on Instagram at @AshArinez or follow @TellAMother for sneak peeks into future episodes and more.

Sources:
Moms Are Not Okay: Covid-19 and Maternal Mental Health

To be completely honest, some of my earliest memories are sad. Then, there are fragments of other memories that contain tropical flowers and sweet fruit in my grandma’s backyard in South Florida. As I’ve grown older and had my own children, I want to do as much as I can to make my daughter’s earliest memories pleasant. I know that’s impossible, but I want to do my best create happy memories for them and I bet you do, too.

In this episode,  we’re continuing our talk about memories and the importance of making them with our kids.

Sources:
Sir Federic Barlett 
The Art of Making Memories