Managing food allergies is exhausting and emotionally draining. While parents of are the keepers of the box when it comes to their children's food, when that food can be life threatening it's terrifying. We often handle that fear through vigilance. However, the older kids get the more often they'll be away from us and the more food choices they'll make on their own. They need, and want, to take [...]
On today’s Mighty Parenting podcast, parenting experts and DASIUM co-founders, Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler take us into the world of how to use healthy coping strategies for stress relief. Managing stress and anxiety is an ever-growing challenge for teens and twenty-somethings in today’s world, and many of them either don’t have the skills or are using unhealthy coping strategies for stress [...]
There are so many things we want our teenagers to learn, including good values and healthy living strategies. Open conversations can help with both of these. Popular media is a great spark for starting a conversation and gives our kids a safe space to talk about ideas. Martha Hunt Handler's book Winter of the Wolf, published by our sponsor Green Leaf Book Group, provides opportunities to discuss [...]