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...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 24, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Helping Kids Overcome Shame If we look at the most profound and basic of human questions (why are we here?) scripture tells us it is to act justly, love mercy, walk humbly, to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to love God with our heart, soul, and strength. All of...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 17, 2021 | Health, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
The Role of Play & Nature in a Child’s Life Summer’s on its way. Here in middle TN, that last school bell is about to ring for the year. Back in the childhoods of the 70’s & 80’s, that meant long lazy days spent outside, dreaming up games, building...
