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Supporting Your Teen Through College Applications With Margaret Baudinet of College Solutions [Podcast Episode]

October 13, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

If your kid might apply for college in the next ten years, you want to listen to this one! Margaret is an expert when it comes to supporting kids through the college application process. She has a particularly valuable perspective on how teenagers experience this crazy time and how parents can support them and today […]

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Getting Active and Connected about being more Active & Connected

October 7, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

This week I wrote a quick post titled, The Active and Connected Summer – The Joy Must Continue! If you didn’t have a chance to read it, here’s the short version… I was reflecting on the joyful fun of the summer and how in the midst of our annual return to the very responsible routines […]

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Making Friends as an Adult [Podcast Episode]

October 6, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

As teenagers, after many years of success, we think it’s going to be easy to make and keep friends as an adult, but often, the opposite tends to be true. Nowadays, we’re so connected to our phones but are more and more disconnected from what’s happening right in front of our faces. Of course, being […]

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Mental Fitness for Athletes and Everyone, Really… With Michael Atunrase [Podcast Episode]

September 29, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

The trend we’re seeing among athletes and other teenagers is a general increase in anxiety and depression. Especially those high-achieving teens, like our teen athletes, struggle with these feelings. They either feel like they shouldn’t experience them at all or already have so many other things added to their daily life, that they decide to […]

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Why Does Parenting Feel So Hard Right Now? [Podcast Episode]

September 29, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

Collectively, we’re coming out of an extremely hard, even traumatic time. We couldn’t wait for life to go ‘back to normal’ but instead of easily sliding back into that ‘normal life’, many of us are struggling. We think we know what we should be doing and how we should be feeling now that the hardest […]

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The Active and Connected Summer – The Party Must Continue!

September 27, 2022 by Amanda 1 Comment

You all… it is September 25th and I need a vacation. My kids have been in school for four weeks and I’m already missing field trip permission slips, have overdrawn the kids’ lunch accounts (and have no idea what the password is), and am *kind of* tired of soccer games.  And while I love college […]

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How We Explain Anxiety to Kids and Families

September 21, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

Anxiety is something everyone experiences at some point in their life. In our society, we hold on to the unhealthy idea that anxiety is bad – that it’s a disorder. But anxiety can actually be very helpful and it functions as an alarm system for all of us. What anxiety is and what it means […]

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730 Days Later… The Return to Normal is Not Normal to our Elementary Schoolers

August 23, 2022 by Amanda Leave a Comment

Over the last few days have your second, third or fourth grader’s been whining, melting down, or crying more than usual? Are they having a harder time following directions or getting along with their siblings? Have they been loudly complaining that they hate school, impossible to take back-to-school shopping, even refusing to go to the […]

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Striving to Hear That Sound Again

August 15, 2022 by Amanda 1 Comment

  This is a picture of me celebrating that I FINISHED the 200 Butterfly at the @masterswimming Nationals. This is not the picture of a National Champion, but of a 41-year-old woman, mother of three who is having the time of her life, celebrating what her body can do and feeling the love and support from […]

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Don’t Get Lost in the Game

July 28, 2022 by Amanda 4 Comments

Oops! I did it again. I have officially signed my middle child up for not one, not two, but three sports this fall. My oldest has two and my youngest will make his long-awaited swimming and soccer debut! So that puts our family at a total of SEVEN for the fall. AND I am the […]

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