When my daughter was in school, I listened for any possible thing my very introverted daughter might be interested in or inspired by, to get her out of her room and into the world. But she preferred to be alone with her pens, pencils, paints and piles of paper,...
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Compassion for the Almond Moms
So, when one of my colleagues posted a video in our team Slack last spring about "almond moms," I was completely lost yet totally fascinated. If you're nodding along, let's navigate this whole "almond mom" thing together – consider this a mom-to-mom crash course. What...
Not Okay in December
When I started my advocacy efforts in 2014 through a youth-led eating disorder organization called REbeL, I did not know that my participation would save me from developing a full-blown eating disorder (instead, leaving me with a more manageable form of disordered...
But there are certain foods that are better for us, right? Shouldn’t we be helping kids to understand and make good food choices?
It’s true that certain foods provide more nutritional value to our bodies than others. And it is important to help kids understand that what we eat has a significant impact on things like our energy levels. However, we can teach kids this by focusing on things like...