Monthly Archives: May 2010

Positive Parenting Tip: Boundaries

Our Yogi Parenting audio tips are presented every Friday by Michaela Turner, BS Ed, CYKT, YKT, Co-creator of the Yogi Parenting course. How do we teach our kids about maintaining healthy boundaries? Listen to this :15 AUDIO TIP: If you are ready for parenting to be easier, more fun and less stressful, sign up for…

How Does Baby Einstein Help/Hurt Your Baby?

Our Expert Mommy talks about this controversial topic. I will admit, my babies watched Baby Einstein and I may have even given Baby Einstein DVDs as gifts! But I love how Dr. Sophia positions her point of view on baby “learning” videos and screen time in general. What do you think?

Sleep Secrets

… nearly a dozen Sleep Secrets that are sure to help both you and your sweet babies get some much needed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz’s…

How to Keep the Peace on Family Trips

Can you hear, “Are we there yet?!?!?” and “He touched me!” already?If you are planning to travel as a family this Memorial Day weekend or summer, remember, a little bit of preparation can go a LONG way.

How to Share a Passion with Your Kids

Summer is quickly approaching! Do you have a summer reading list? I’m adding Little Women to mine — because as you’ll see in this video, family reading time has been a big hit in our family! We just finished Call of the Wild! My daughter was rapt! It’s been especially rewarding for me because books…

Positive Parenting Tip: Tattling?

Our Yogi Parenting audio tips are presented every Friday by Michaela Turner, BS Ed, CYKT, YKT, Co-creator of the Yogi Parenting course. Listen to this :15 AUDIO TIP: If you are ready for parenting to be easier, more fun and less stressful, sign up for a free Yogi Parenting lesson.

How to Name Your Core Values

In the span of 24 hours I got this same message from two different sources, once from my dear friend Morgan who shared Writing Your Life Manifesto and the other from the Mondo Beyondo online class I just started this week. Morgan says a manifesto is “a public declaration of intentions.” So in the wee…

How to Help End Child Hunger

A few years ago, I read the book, The Glass Castle. Did you read it? It really left an impression and got me thinking. Not so much about whether I would let me 3 year old cook hot dogs unsupervised but about how the kids in the book would forage through the trash cans in the…

Forgiveness: How Relationships Go the Distance

When we got married, our dear friends and officiants gave us this great little sign that reads, “Kiss slowly, forgive quickly.”  I literally look at this sign every day, but didn’t get the depth of its instruction until reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. I’m talking about forgiveness, as in…

How to Dream BIG

You may know that I’ve signed up for the May session of Mondo Beyondo. I first heard about it from  Heidi Howes. She explained that it was all about dreaming BIG. Most of us train ourselves to have dreams that are “attainable” or “reasonable” — dreams that we think we have a fair chance of…