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How Love Can Help Our Kids Become Extraordinary
Parenting

How Love Can Help Our Kids Become Extraordinary

ByShawni April 8, 2025April 9, 2025

As my kids have grown older I often look back and wonder: Did we push for the extraordinary too much? Did we not push enough? What is the balance on…

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How to Reinvent Good Parenting…Over and Over!
Parenting

How to Reinvent Good Parenting…Over and Over!

ByShawni March 30, 2025March 30, 2025

I have learned through the years that we have to reinvent good parenting. Over and over again. Parenting is certainly NOT something we learn and voila! We’ve got it. Dang…

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How to Foster Deeper Discussions with Your Family
Parenting

How to Foster Deeper Discussions with Your Family

ByShawni February 5, 2025February 5, 2025

I am often asked how Dave and I foster deeper discussions with our family. Conversations that are more meaningful and make us closer. The last time I was asked, I…

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predictability promotes the best development
Motherhood | Parenting

predictability promotes the best development

ByShawni January 29, 2025January 29, 2025

I keep thinking about the developmental psychology class I took a while back that explored the “Attachment Theory.” I learned about the preciousness of predictability in parenting. When kids don’t…

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tips for Raising teenage boys – A Different Perspective
Parenting | Teens

tips for Raising teenage boys – A Different Perspective

ByShawni January 18, 2025January 18, 2025

I got a question about raising teenage boys clear back when Max turned fifteen (below). It sure made me think. When I came across this question again the other day…

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mothering Max and Elle
Motherhood | Parenting

Do We Strive for “Superior” Motherhood?

ByShawni January 12, 2025April 8, 2025

I read the most interesting article a few years ago that made me think. In our world where “gentle parenting” is becoming king, are we drifting away from the idea…

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New Years Resolutions that Actually KEEP – One Way to Look at the “Big Picture”
Parenting

New Years Resolutions that Actually KEEP – One Way to Look at the “Big Picture”

ByShawni December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

Oh I am sending out so much holiday love. Hope everyone had the best Christmas. So much I want to writ and ponder on about ours. But for now, with…

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How to Organize your Fridge when you have Low Vision
Parenting

How to Organize your Fridge when you have Low Vision

ByShawni September 6, 2024September 6, 2024

Want to know how to organize your fridge when you have low vision? Just grab some green masking tape and ask Lucy to help you. This kid is a wonder….

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Shawni and Claire hugging on a road in the sunset
Parenting

How to Build Relationships by Setting Boundaries

ByShawni July 29, 2024July 29, 2024

Sometimes as parents we think we need to give up boundaries in order to build relationships with our kids. But actually the opposite is true. I got this question a…

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