Tag: parenting

5 Ways Motherhood Makes Me a Better Person #FiveonFriday

As we get closer to the end of the year, I start to reflect on what has happened and what I’ve gone through. At this point in time, I am really beginning to see how motherhood makes me a better person – in all aspects of life. Here’s how. 1 – I am better able to master my emotions. When...

RAVE: 5 Ways INSIDE OUT Has Helped My Highly Sensitive Child

I know not everyone loves animated movies, but I do. Perhaps it comes with the territory of being married to a 3D artist, but I have often found that animated movies resonate more deeply with me than live action movies. It may just be that people who get involved with animated movies have amazing imaginations and wonderful storytelling abilities. This...

RAVE: Be the Best Parent You Can Be VIDEO SUMMIT

Parenting has been the biggest learning curve for me, especially with my highly sensitive child. I’ve signed up for a few parenting newsletters and Facebook groups to keep abreast of tips that might help with my daughter (because God knows the traditional parenting I was brought up with does NOT work with her), and came across this free video summit...

Bedtime eBook: Teelee Tiger’s Good Night

Being married to a visual artist means that I take for granted the talent my husband has for drawing. We’ve always talked about writing a children’s book together that would feature his illustrations – and we finally did it! I’m not the best at self-promotion, but I am pretty proud of how our first attempt turned out. And so, I...

RANT: Bullying – What Do We Teach Our Kids?

It’s a fact of life. There will always be bullies. How do we deal with it? I struggle with the answer to this question as I decide what to teach my 4-year-old daughter.

LIFE: Routines Rule

As I am continuing to understand my highly sensitive child more and more, I’m seeing how incredibly important routines are for her. I remember reading parenting books at the infancy stage talking about how some parents like a strict schedule of feeding and napping, whereas other parents just kind of go with the flow. We were definitely more on the...

LIFE: Getting to Know My Highly Sensitive Child

Ever since I read Parenting from Scratch‘s article “5 Things to Know About Raising Introverted Children“, I knew I had to do more reading on the topic. I’ve known that my daughter was sensitive ever since she was an infant. She cried way more than other babies when we went for playdates and I was so jealous of other moms...

LOVE: It’s In the Moments

I have found that being a mother has increased my anxious, hurriedness about life. It’s hard not to let that happen. There’s always something to attend to, something to get ready for, and when you get those things done, you have to start again. So it’s easy to fall into routines and not pay attention to those moments. You know...

LIFE: Boundaries Around Children

It’s so interesting what different people are used to with strangers, big gatherings, and shopping malls. I used to think it was more nurture than nature, that your upbringing and family culture dictated how you behaved and reacted in these situations. Watching my daughter from infancy to toddlerhood has changed my viewpoint a bit. Even at 2 months old she...

LIFE: Child’s Play, the Bullying Battlefield

My daughter is by nature a very shy and sensitive girl. She is never the kid that runs up to other people and gives them hugs or initiates interaction. At dance class or music class, she will run up to get something like the other kids, but always hovers in the back, waiting. Sometimes I worry that she isn’t assertive...