Joy Fixes for Parents: Positive Parenting

Joy Fixes for Parents: Positive Parenting Tools to build parents' joy - mindfulness, positivity, self-care, and relationships. www.erinleyba.com blog. Book - Joy Fixes for Weary Parents Warmly, Erin

Joy Fixes for Weary Parents (2017) assists parents in becoming experts at caring for themselves and being good to themselves by: releasing guilt, embracing humility, bringing compassion to mistakes and weak spots, following intuition and truth, rewarding themselves, and confronting comparisons. It helps parents strengthen their ability to notice and savor the existing joy, beauty, and grace in the

ir lives and develop habits of gratitude. It gives them ways to cope with difficult feelings, remain grounded in the face of stress, and use mindfulness to stay calm and remain in their “second consciousness.”

Joy Fixes helps parents daydream, visualize, and determine what they want their lives and identities to be like. It helps them slow down, simplify, and create better balance. Most importantly, it gives parents crystal clear ideas for proactively bringing joy to their most important relationships—the ones with their children, their partners, their parents, and their friends. I'm Erin, an individual and marriage counselor in Chicago’s western suburbs (Oak Brook, IL). I specialize in working with parents of babies and young children. I love what I do and learn from every person I meet. http://www.erinleyba.com I work with people regarding anxiety, grief and loss, postpartum depression, reconnecting as a couple, parenting kids with special needs, losing a parent when you are a parent, and other issues. Thanks for visiting, and I look forward to reading any comments you post.

07/08/2025

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Our theme this week - Meltdowns and Tantrums








Being displaced after a natural disaster can cause kids to feel cut off from their social supports, routines, and sense ...
01/12/2025

Being displaced after a natural disaster can cause kids to feel cut off from their social supports, routines, and sense of security. Enduring natural disasters can make children feel depressed and anxious, or can cause them to experience PTSD symptoms up to four years after the event (Lai & La Greca, 2020). Staying in hotel rooms or with friends or family for weeks or months on end often creates undue stress for both parents and kids.

By being intentional about connection, routines, positivity, and gratitude, parents can protect their kids from the potentially negative impacts of disaster, even when kids are not able to return home for a long time.

Kids can feel depressed or anxious after a natural disaster. Here are ways parents can help protect kids from negative outcomes.

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12/18/2024

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Thanks, Rae Pica Keynotes & Consulting

12/03/2024

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Thanks, Mom Seeking Coffee via The Contented Child, Child Wellbeing Consultancy

08/02/2024

Love this beautiful image from Coastal Connections OT.

12 Ways to Co-regulate with your Child

1. Lower your body position
2. Lower your voice (can be volume or pitch)
3. Soften your facial expression
4. Model deep breathing
5. Do heavy work together
6. Walk outside
7. Offer deep pressure
8. Model a preferred sensory activity
9. Move your body together (have you tried stimming as a co-occupation??)
10. Dim the lights (or rely solely on natural light)
11. Stop talking (offer communication alternatives)
12. Change your proximity (move away, move into a parallel position and minimize face-to-face confrontation, move lower, move closer but be indirectly positioned etc.)

07/08/2024

Couldn't agree more and we can't EVER get too many reminders! It's much harder than it sounds to let feelings be, don't you think?

Thanks to Eli Harwood from Attachment Nerd for this message, well said!

06/27/2024

Love this Casey Huff❤

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06/05/2024

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. 💕

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05/22/2024

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One mom is totally fed up with the focus on winning in youth sports. ⁠
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"We are ten minutes into the second half of my kid’s basketball game, and while a handful of kids have sweated through their jerseys, my son is bone-dry and relaxing cross-legged on the bench. He has been in the game for a total of three minutes, broken up into a couple short bursts to give the starters a break. And I’m frustrated. While I understand the competitive nature of sports, I don’t think it justifies wildly disproportionate playing time for a team of kids who are just barely hitting tweenhood." ⁠

Read the rest here: https://bit.ly/3ypF8wb

05/10/2024

❤ Casey Huff

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