by justaskyourmompodcast | Aug 2, 2021 | Health, Toddlers, Wellbeing
We’ve all been there as first-time moms. We have one, maybe two young children and they are who we know. It may not be until we encounter their cousins, other children on playdates or in a daycare setting, or maybe a pointed question from our pediatrician that...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jul 26, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
As moms, we take our children regularly to the pediatrician. The doctor checks height, weight, head circumference and all the developmental milestones. At some point, those visits become less and less frequent and eventually stop. Our children grow up and leave all...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jul 19, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
When you’re a first-time mom, you have nothing to compare your child to. Unless you’ve had lots of exposure to other kids, you imagine what your child does or how she behaves is how most children behave. True, most children fall under the large swoop of...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jul 12, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Photo by Blake Meyer on Unsplash We’re smack in the middle of summer and all that time still stretches ahead….. what do you DO with it?? A word about boredom… When we were kids… we stayed at home and ran around the neighborhood looking for stuff to do. We...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jun 14, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
Addressing the Epidemic of Anxiety in Kids & Their Parents We’ve seen the shift in the ways American parents are raising their children. Since the mid-70’s, parents have been sold a bill of goods, one that convinced them of lurking danger in the world...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 31, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Lavy Little is an OT and mother of three active, grown sons (ages 18, 20, and 21). She and her husband Conrad had been married only 3 years when, because of kidney disease related to the diabetes he’d lived with since the age of 4, she donated one of her kidneys...