Happy Home Yoga and Dance

05/24/2023

Parents, birth workers and supporters, come join the Shasta Birth Collective for a casual potluck and playdate!

June 1st in Yreka 4:30-6pm

June 28th in Mt Shasta 2:30-4:30pm

04/17/2023

04/15/2023

So many reasons to be the best role model!
Love this visual reminder 👌🏽
Source: The Mom Brain Therapist

04/05/2023

03/29/2023

💚 “Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls” 💚

– Erin Kenny.

03/24/2023

A must listen for all my family and friends!! Especially with littles 😍

Our latest full length album, Life is But a Dream, will be available March 24th! This labor of love reimagining nursery rhymes has seen us through the early years of parenthood. We can’t wait to share the magic!

03/13/2023

03/09/2023

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins
in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our
grandmother’s womb, and she in turn
formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

💜 Layne Redmond, When the Drummers
Were Women
🎨 Amy Haderer, The Mandala Journey Birth
Amy Haderer, Artist - Mandala Journey

02/12/2023

My issue with compliance-based methods.

You have assumed that my kid has made an intentional choice to not do the thing. You have assumed that they are entirely capable of doing the thing in this moment, but they have chosen not to. Based on this reasoning, all my kid needs is more rewards offered and more consequences given. Then they will learn to make the ‘right choice’, and just do the thing.

This is so incorrect.
As Dr Ross Greene says, kids do well if they can.

My kid WILL do the thing WHEN HE CAN.

When he doesn’t, it’s probably because he’s too dysregulated.
It’s probably because he has absolutely no mental energy left.
It could be because he’s had to mask hard all day and he’s got nothing left to give.
It could be because he can’t access his executive function skills in this moment.
It could be because he’s not ok inside.
It could be because he is too sad.
It could be because he is a perfectionist and doesn’t think he can do the thing perfectly right this minute.
It could be because his head is pounding from massive sensory overload.
It could be anxiety.
It could be because he has learnt that mistakes are punished here.
It could be that he is minutes away from shutting down.

It could be all these things.
When my kid doesn’t do the thing, it is because he can’t- not because he won’t.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that my kid just isn’t trying hard enough.

He tries so much harder than you will ever know.

Em 🌈
AuDHD SLP

02/10/2023

02/03/2023

☕️☕️☕️

From Upbility.net

02/03/2023

“Anger Transference” by Richard Sargent (1954)