Posts tagged #kind
87. Turning A Negative Into A Positive

One morning this past week, one of the 4am mornings, I woke up exhausted. And when I wake up feeling this way, I’ll usually put a show on for the girls while I try and get another hour of sleep on the sofa. This particular morning I woke up to my youngest Quinn going through daddy’s wallet. I recall seeing it on the coffee table before lying down but didn’t really think anything of it. (In retrospect I don’t know why I didn’t move it. She’s pretty sneaky like I was at her age!)

So, as you can probably imagine...

67. Teaching Kindness

You know it’s actually quite surprising to me that we need to teach kindness to children. At least I do. I have to constantly remind my two little girls to be kind to one another. And when I remind them, I have to be mindful of how I’m redirecting them and that I’m being kind when I do.  Instead of reacting with frustration, which can totally happen when we’re exhausted or when we’re tired of reminding them again and again. Also something crazy I just learned from my partner Deryk is that 3 year old's ask an average of 300-400 questions per day!!  So it’s totally normal if you feel as crazy as I do.

For example earlier this week the girls were playing...