3 Ways to Stop Fighting with Your Teen
3 Ways to Stop Fighting with Your Teen by: Jazmin Gutierrez Adolescence is characterized by striving for independence during a stage in which the majority of their life is out of their control. Teenagers are frustrated by this, and often try to gain a sense of control in any way they can. Parents serve as […]
Building Families: Meet NewOrleansMom.com Life Bosses
Ashley Angelico and Elizabeth Schmelling built New Orleans’ premiere digital parenting resource. Serving both residents and visitors to New Orleans, Ashley and Elizabeth have become ambassadors for New Orleans and advocates for families. “Finding stories and local moms who have experienced the same thing, to help you feel that you’re not on this journey alone…To advocate for yourself, […]
Feeling Upside Down? Helping Kids Thrive Through the Pandemic…One Year Later with Dr. Laura Hernandez
One year later, “Feeling Upside Down?”, the poem Dr. Laura Hernandez penned to help kids cope with the pandemic, is still relevant. Read her poem. “I think the mindful piece of it is that big pause button has helped us to reevaluate and be mindful of the things that either we need to add into […]
Get Your Kids To Sleep and Get Back Your Bed
Is your child getting enough sleep? Just as a child needs to be taught to eat, read, or dress themselves – they also need to be taught to sleep. “It’s during sleep that everything that they saw, felt, heard, touched throughout the day gets those connections to get made. So, it’s super important to ensure […]
The Kids are Alright
A recent study found that teens fared fairly well during the pandemic slow down while schools shut down. Their parents struggled, with adult symptoms of depression and distress ascending (three-fold increase as compared to 2018 and 2019). Meanwhile, teen mental health improved according to the study. That’s right, a major US study found that teen […]
Smoothing Out the Mother/Daughter Relationship
“It isn’t even about giving advice. It’s about letting them talk and hearing them from a non-judgmental zone, from a non-zone of wanting to interject, from a non-zone of trying to fix it and just be present. What a gift we can give to them when we can do it.” – Giselle Armantrout Navigating the […]
SmartPhones & Teen Girls
The Love/Hate Relationship between Smartphones and Teen-Girls By: Giselle Armantrout Picture this – your teen girl receives a normal-looking friend request on Instagram from someone who shares her interest in music. She accepts, and the two new “friends” begin chatting. The problem is that the “friend” is simply one of many imposter profiles of a […]
Distracted Parenting…
Distracted Parenting… Can We Be More Present? By: Giselle Armantrout Is your phone a distraction? We see this scenario played out everyday everywhere! Mothers & fathers looking down at their iPhones… swiping, scrolling, texting, working, posting, shopping, while their son or daughter sits across the table on their tablets. Not much interaction going on… sound […]
6 ingredients that help KIDS become successful ADULTS
Want your kids to have an edge? Want them to become successful? Here’s a checklist BASED ON RESEARCH – how many are you doing? So you’re a loving, present, empathetic, compassionate parent. You hug your kids, try to avoid shaming them, and lovingly attend to their needs. Great! That’s a wonderful start. But if that’s […]
Teen Cell Phones… and Depression
Is your teen’s phone making them DEPRESSED? There are striking trends afoot for those keen to adolescent development. We know kids spend immense amount of time on their phones, but what’s the impact? Read Time’s article that shows data suggests that teens today are experiencing profound occurrences of depression. Later, after her attempted suicide and […]