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How To Find Balance In Your Mother-Daughter Relationship

Here’s a fact: every mom just wants to find balance in her mother-daughter relationship. And these 3 mother-daughter adjustment insights will help ANY mom adjust more smoothly as her daughter heads off (or back) to college in the Fall. Insight #1: She’s Home, But She’s Not As an empty-nesting mom, this […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

Raising Independent Children: 3 Mistakes To Avoid

If your focus is raising independent children, then you need to avoid making these 3 mistakes. Mistake #1: Being “The Cool Mom” Who Says Yes What you need to understand about this is when a mom thinks she has say “Yes” or agree with everything her child does in order to be liked […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

The #1 Secret Every Mom Needs To Know

If you really want to know how to feel guilt-free about your mothering, then pay careful attention to this secret. The #1 Secret Is: Enough With The ‘noughs The bottom line with this is whenever you feel yourself thinking that you are either not good enough, not doing enough, or not being enough, […]

Dr. Michelle Deering

Blog, Parenting Strategies

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

How To Find Balance In Your Mother-Daughter Relationship

Raising Independent Children: 3 Mistakes To Avoid

The #1 Secret Every Mom Needs To Know

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

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