How She Moms, Author at The Family Lab

How She Plays With Her Kids (And How She Doesn’t)

By How She Moms|2023-11-17T21:50:07+00:00November 30, 2020|Family Culture, Relationships, Uncategorized|

In this episode we’ll talk about 10 tactics to bring a little more play into parenting. Along the way, we’ll dig into the guilt a little bit and examine that pressure we feel to entertain our kids, we’ll talk to moms about specific ways they play with their kids—including march-madness style taste tests, airborne pancakes, and competitive toilet wiping—and we’ll even learn some techniques for making those pretend-play sessions something you can actually enjoy once in a while.

0

How Brooke Romney Learns from Other Moms

By How She Moms|2023-11-17T21:50:27+00:00November 23, 2020|Friendship|

Brooke Romney is one of my favorite writers on the topic of being a mother and being a good person in general. Her first book, I Love Me Anyway, released this fall, and it’s as beautiful and inspiring as I expected. Here, I talk with Brooke about some of the different stages she’s experienced in motherhood, and what she’s learned along the way, especially from other moms.

0

How she Takes Care of Herself Part 2

By How She Moms|2023-11-17T21:55:40+00:00November 17, 2020|Mental Health, Motherhood, Uncategorized|

In the last episode, we talked about why self-care is important and some great ideas of how to make it happen. Today, we’re going to talk to three moms who have figured out how to take care of themselves while taking care of their kids, in three very different ways and in three different situations.

0

How She Finds Time Alone

By How She Moms|2023-11-17T21:57:37+00:00October 22, 2020|Mental Health, Motherhood, Uncategorized|

This episode is all about how to find islands of our own—islands of time and islands of space where moms can be alone and recharge. This is the first of two episodes about self care. The next one will include lots of different ways to care for ourselves, but I wanted to start with this episode because I feel like this desperate need for alone time is pretty unique to motherhood, and especially to motherhood right now, in a time of homeschooling, remote schooling, and working from home.

0

How She Connects With Her Kids

By How She Moms|2023-11-17T22:04:44+00:00March 4, 2020|Relationships, Uncategorized|

Connecting with our kids is the big “why” of motherhood—the payoff for all the hard work and sacrifice. Sometimes it comes naturally and easy, sometimes it’s more complicated, and sometimes it’s unspeakably hard. But even then, we keep trying, because that’s what moms do. In this episode, I share ideas about how moms connect with their kids, organized into eight main ideas: 1. Plan Connection Opportunities into Your Routine 2. Make Time to Talk 3. Show Interest in their Interests 4. Play Together 5. Work Together 6. Carve Out One-on-One Time 7. Tell Them You Love Them 8. Identify Pain Points and Find a Workaround

0