What Teachers Should Know About Kids With Anxiety

What Teachers Should Know About Kids With Anxiety

Anxiety is something that is very difficult to understand, whether you’re an observer or it affects you directly. At times, it’s like a scary monster that seemingly comes out of nowhere.  Your heart races, your palms get sweaty, a lump develops in your...
Why Maia Campbell’s Illness Isn’t Funny

Why Maia Campbell’s Illness Isn’t Funny

Like most people, I have seen the video of Maia Campbell that has unfortunately gone viral. If you’re reading this and you’ve seen it, you probably saw a video of a former actress begging for crack. If you’ve seen it and you laughed, you need a...
Mindfulness Activities for Kids

Mindfulness Activities for Kids

We live in a world that is plagued by constant stimulation and it causes us to act in ways that probably even surprise us at times. As adults, we can get easily agitated, angrier, and overwhelmed when we don’t intentionally focus on shutting our brains off. So,...
5 Reasons You Should NOT Be Everything to Your Kids

5 Reasons You Should NOT Be Everything to Your Kids

Moms are some of the most passionate people I know, especially when it comes to our babies. At any point, we are ready to be our kid’s playmate, help with school projects, be their biggest cheerleader and even fight for them, if we have to. So many moms work to...
How to Combat Holiday Stress

How to Combat Holiday Stress

I love NBC’s new hit, This is Us. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, it’s a provocative series about a white family of 5; mom, dad, their biological twins and their adopoted black son. You can read more about it here.  It’s a...