My girls and I went to see the Barbie Movie last week. We have been anxiously awaiting its release and expected a fun and lighthearted movie. We did not expect to feel emotions as big as we did and to leave with as many big discussion points as we did. I loved seeing the range of what my girls picked …
Tips For Attending Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour With Children 10 and Younger
Last weekend my three girls and I headed up to Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour performance in Glendale at the State Farm Stadium. This was the first concert like this my newly minted 10-year-old daughter had ever attended. I tried to make as many preparations in advance, but since we were one of the first to attend the concert, I …
Parenting An Empath: Night Terrors
Recently I read a post on a FB group I am a part of and a mom there was asking for help. She said her young daughter had stopped sleeping in her room due to a “nighttime visitor” no one in the family could see who came every night and scared the little girl. The mom was worried her daughter …
The One Thing Every Young Empath Needs To Hear
For a long time I used to stay awake at night trying to figure out what I could do or say to help my children the most with their special empathic gifts. Or their empathic burdens as it might at times be seen. I know every parent worries about their children, but as the parent of an empath, it just …
Miles To Go Before She Sleeps- The Lost Art Of Conversation For Moms
Last night I had an appointment that I knew would require some waiting on my part. It would be in a nice air-conditioned room with soft chairs, so I was actually thinking it wouldn’t be so bad and was looking forward to the alone time. I get very little of that in general, but especially more so now that summer …
How To Make The Best Graduation Cards EVER- With Basic Invite
Last year, right smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, I had a graduating Senior who we still wanted to celebrate. She wasn’t going to be able to graduate the traditional way everyone else before her had, but that didn’t matter. We planned a drive-by party and made sure she had some fantastic grad cards that she could send out …
Parenting An Empath: Helping Your Child Navigate Friendships
We all want our kids to have friends, but when your child is an empath it can be supremely frustrating trying to help them understand what a good friend is. I have at times just wished my family lived in an isolated log cabin in the wilderness where we never had to encounter other people, but well, that isn’t really …
FREE Mother’s Day Printable Cards
Guys, how is it May already, and how is Mother’s Day just next week?! Geesh, time is really flying this year! This week as I hurriedly tried to prep for Mother’s Day, I made up some printable cards for all of the amazing women at church, and of course, I know some pretty amazing women over here on my blog …
DIY Kid’s Worm Habitat
My 8-year-old -daughter has a goal to basically be “one with nature”. She loves to spend time outdoors looking for shiny rocks, flowers, interesting bugs, and plant life. Our backyard is a collection of many of her “very” interesting discoveries. Lately, she has been fixated on getting earthworms as pets. At first, I was like we have a rabbit, tons …
Three Things Every Parent Of An Empath Should Know
I was watching the movie the Sixth Sense with my older kiddos last night and one of them said to me, ” So basically this movie is just a rip-off of an empath’s life?’ I was like yeah, I guess so. What’s funny is that I think there are thousands of empaths out there who don’t talk about what they …
Parenting an Empath: Extended Family
Family is where some of our greatest joy, strength, and motivation come from. It is our primary and earliest source for learning and development. Unfortunately, it can also be a source of great pain and hurt. This is true whether you have an empath in your family or not. As a parent to an empath, modeling and teaching healthy and …
Parenting An Empath: Creating Safe Spaces
As an empath one of the most important things you can ever do to guard your health and well-being is to actively work to create safe spaces for yourself. These are spaces or places where you can recharge and remove some of the excess energy and emotions that you have picked up from others. As a parent to an empath, …
Don’t Wait For 2020 To End: Light The World Now
2020 has been long, but it has also blurred together as we have careened back and forth experiencing and seeing things many of us never thought would happen this year. Let alone ever. But they did. Call me naive, but I believe that many of us will come back from this year better people. Because even people I may not …
Parenting Empaths: Is My Child An Empath?
Since I began writing about my own experience of parenting empaths I have had several parents reach out to ask me if I had any tips or ideas on helping them to decipher if their child was an empath. I know that this can be a little tricky since we are talking about young children, tweens, and teens. Their personalities …
