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How To Have RACE Talks With Your Kids_Part 2

Talking about race with your kids requires reasoning skills. It also requires that you understand what your kid’s racial development needs. Feeling Caught In The Middle With A Middle Schooler? As children enter their middle school years, their prefrontal cortex is still developing. Academic demands begin to require more independent management of […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

How To Have RACE Talks With Your Kids_Part 1

You can’t tell a book by its cover. Nor can you (really) appreciate or understand a book by reading the Cliff Notes. It can be hard to race through a book and something meaningful out of it. Moms are “teachers” in and often set the tone of their home. Get On Your […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

4 “Race Talk” Mistakes Every Mom Should Avoid

If you’re a mom who wants to know what to say when talking about race with her child, then you need to avoid making these 4 mistakes. Mistake #1: Repressing Your Feelings The core idea for you with this is that not acknowledging your real feelings, not admitting your fears and concerns, […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parent Musings

How To Be Present In Your Daughter’s Life

What’s brown and green and not looking right all over? That’s what I asked myself as I recently looked at my plant. And that’s what I also asked myself as I looked at what my daughter was displaying. No mom ever expects her plant — or her daughter — to start displaying “brown spots.” And even […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

4 More Motherhood Lessons Learned From Potting Plants

In a prior blog, I recounted what my eldest daughter (Candace) taught me about the process of potting plants and I shared what motherhood lessons I learned from that experience. Today, I wanted to share 4 more motherhood lessons I learned from the whole plant-potting experience when it comes to parenting my twin daughters. Be […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

4 Motherhood Lessons I Learned From Potting Plants

In my prior blog, I recounted what my eldest daughter (Candace) taught me about the process of potting plants. Today, I wanted to share 4 motherhood lessons I learned from it all when it comes to parenting my twin daughters. Funny, but after Candace and I potted my plant, she looked at me and […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting

5 Essential Steps For Potting Plants

To pot or not to pot? Is that really the question? Whether ‘twas nobler for the life of my plant to suffer my constant watering or take refuge in my trashcan, I cannot say. But, what I can say that I don’t claim to have a green thumb. Yet somehow, plants just seem to grow […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

5 Missteps To Avoid When Disciplining Your Children

Disciplining children is like filling out a FAFSA form. You’re told it’s “simple,” but to do it correctly requires so much time and effort. Do you have trouble disciplining your child? Well, keep reading as I share 5 costly missteps moms tend to make that keeps them from getting their children really […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

5 S.L.E.E.P.™ Tips Every Mom Needs

Most moms think that to get enough sleep, you have to miss out on actual family time. But that’s not true. In fact, you may think that your daily work and home tasks are actually conspiring to keep you from getting the sleep you need. However, here are 5 S.L.E.E.P.™ tips to help you […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parent Musings

To Practice Or Not To Practice…With The Team

When the leaves changed in October 2018, so did my approach with my eldest daughter regarding team practice. I’d been upstairs doing some work and I heard the door open in the front of the house. Both of my daughters came home through the door. I was only expecting one of them—my youngest, Jasmine—to be […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

How To Have RACE Talks With Your Kids_Part 2

How To Have RACE Talks With Your Kids_Part 1

4 “Race Talk” Mistakes Every Mom Should Avoid

How To Be Present In Your Daughter’s Life

4 More Motherhood Lessons Learned From Potting Plants

4 Motherhood Lessons I Learned From Potting Plants

5 Essential Steps For Potting Plants

5 Missteps To Avoid When Disciplining Your Children

5 S.L.E.E.P.™ Tips Every Mom Needs

To Practice Or Not To Practice…With The Team

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