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Explaining the heavy emotional load of family caretaking to your young kids

Jaimi Erickson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:50:07 +0000

Parents face one of the most challenging balancing acts in modern life: caring deeply for aging parents, chronically ill relatives, or family members with disabilities while simultaneously nurturing young children who may not fully understand why mom or dad seems stretched so thin. Photo by Yan Krukau: https://www.pexels.com/photo/girl-sitting-on-kitchen-table-while-listening-to-woman-6617507/ As a child development psychologist would advise, […]

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Why Some Families Struggle to Talk About Emotional Trauma

Jaimi Erickson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:44:43 +0000

For many people, emotional struggles were never openly discussed growing up. Feelings like anxiety, grief, emotional exhaustion, or childhood trauma were often treated as things to quietly “push through” rather than talk about directly. In some families, especially in more traditional environments, emotional resilience was strongly valued, but emotional openness was not always encouraged in […]

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Supporting Children Through Emotional and Developmental Changes

Jaimi Erickson — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:05:46 +0000

We often talk about childhood as if it were a straight line, from crawling to walking, babbling to speaking, and eventually, leaving the nest. But anyone who has actually spent time around kids knows the reality is far messier. It’s a series of loops, sudden leaps forward, and the occasional frustrating slide backward. One day, […]

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How Parents Can Nurture Emotional Intelligence in Their Children

Jaimi Erickson — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:15:41 +0000

Emotional intelligence is one of the most vital qualities that determine how a child interacts with others, handles challenges, and grows into a balanced individual. It is the ability to understand and manage one’s emotions while empathizing with others. In today’s world, where children face constant exposure to new experiences and emotions, developing this skill […]

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Raising a Happy & Outdoor Child: The Heart of Parenting

Jaimi Erickson — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:00:57 +0000

Raising your children to appreciate the outdoors, from a young age, will bring forth a happy and healthy child. In today’s modern world filled with technology children have forgotten what it is to play outdoors. Here are a few tips that might help you as parent to get the kids back to loving the outdoors. […]

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Helping Children Sleep and Calm Down

Jaimi Erickson — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 23:33:43 +0000

It was starting to become a noticeably chronic problem for both of my girls. One of my daughter’s could not fall asleep at night and the other was waking up in the middle of the night. I suddenly went from a mom getting enough sleep at night to one being woken again. I knew my […]

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Fighting Depression as a Mom

Jaimi Erickson — Sun, 20 May 2018 19:34:49 +0000

{Post by Lisa} Our four-day hospital stay with our first born was spent holding our happy infant almost every minute. That filled our time with peace. We were so content to just rest together. My husband and I were glad to go home, of course, but on the way out of the hospital door we […]

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Managing Emotions as a Mom

Jaimi Erickson — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:30:44 +0000

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Lisa Brown} I used to think that something was seriously wrong with me. Hormones, life circumstances, sin, anxiety, and depression play a huge role in the […]

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