Parenting 101, post-Potter.

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We’re going back to basics on the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast. We dissect–not literally– the most important organ in the human body: the brain! www.onebighappyhome.com/2019/05/1…

I allowed my children to pick out Mothers’ Day cards at the Hallmark store, and now I am a glitter casualty.

Marriage is tough and takes intentional investment to make it thrive. Our latest Empowered Parent podcast episode is for adoptive and foster families on staying connected in marriage.

If you missed it earlier in the month, there’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, where we talk about incorporating play into everyday.

There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we’re talking about ways to incorporate play into every day.

Shazam! is really awesome, a fun movie, and has a really good pro-foster care family vibe on top of it.

But adoptive and foster parents be aware: there is a huge abandonment issue where the child gets re-traumatized. Also, the monsters in it may be really scary, depending on the age of your kids.

“I don’t know how adoptive and foster parents walk their journeys without a tribe of kindred spirits who can confide in confidence with one another.”

Parenting kids with trauma pasts is too hard to do by yourself. You need people in the trenches with you, people you can confide in without judgment, who know what you’re going through because they’ve been there, too.

Taking my non-hockey kid to the @DallasStars game because his school band is performing in the AAC South Plaza before tonight’s game. Then he gets to meet @tweetgrubes!

Celebratory dinner at Mooyah with my hockey player for two of his favorite things: burgers and milkshakes.

Celebratory dinner at Mooyah with my hockey player for two of his favorite things: burgers and milkshakes.