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![Síðasta námskeiðið á Íslandi í bili! Örfáir miðar eftir - ef það verður uppselt á námskeiðið endilega skráðu þig á biðlista og ég mun hafa samband ef ég ákveð að halda netfund með haustinu ❤️🙏🏻💫
Um námskeiðið:
Ef þú átt barn sem fer úr 0 uppí 100 yfir hlutum sem virðast oft litlir eða ómerkilegir og virðist jafnvel reiðast enn meira þegar þú reynir að vera til staðar, viðurkenna tilfinningar eða bjóða knús. Þá er ‘Viðkvæm og Viðljasterk Börn’ námskeiðið fyrir þig🙏🏻
Á þessu námskeiði fjallar ég um misskildu börnin með stóra hjartað og sterku réttlætiskenndina sem eiga við tilfinningar sem virðast oft vera númeri of stórar. Þetta eru krakkar sem eru yfirleit klár, hæfileikarík og hugmyndarík - eru með djúpa hugsun og mikla samkennd en á sama tíma eiga erfitt með að tjá tilfinningarnar sínar og forðast samtöl um erfiða hluti eða atvik😣
Það getur verið ruglingslegt að eiga við þessa kraftmiklu krakka sem við vitum að geta svo mikið en virðast alltof oft festast í pirring, reiði og svart/hvítri hugsun.
Á námskeiðinu fá foreldrar tækifæri til að skilja Viðkvæm og Viljasterk börn betur, af hverju tilfinningarnar þeirra virðast sitja nálægt skömm og hvernig er hægt að setja þessum kraftmiklu börnum mörk án þess að draga úr þeim sjálfstraust og sjálfsálit💛
✨Við förum yfir það hvernig við styðjum við erfið skapofsaköst og hvernig við hjálpum þessum börnum að þróa tilfinningafærni og tilfinningastjórn.
Námskeiðið er ekki fyrir sérstakan aldur barna þrátt fyrir að dæmisögur sem verða sagðar séu yfirleitt um börn frá aldrinum 1-9 ára.
Skrifaðu ‘hlekkur’ í athugasemd og ég sendi þér hlekkin á námskeiðið í DM❤️❤️❤️
Sjáumst á fimmtudaginn!💃💃💃]()
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![Sometimes the best toddler tips are the simplest ones👌
You might be thinking what kind of card game do I play with my 3 y old - we basically just play pretend where he puts out whatever card he wants and I do the same and then we draw whenever and however many we want as well…😅
Funny enough, after doing that for awhile he has naturally started to match the sorts or numbers which turns the game into a basic ‘Uni’ like card game or a simple ‘Olsen Olsen’ which is what we call it in Iceland💕
Do you like playing cards with your kids?😍
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![Er þitt barn Viðkvæmt og viljasterkt? Skrifaðu ‘Já takk’ til að fá hlekk á miðasölu❤️
Viðkvæm og viljasterk börn eru krakkar sem fara úr 0 uppí 100 yfir hlutum sem virðast oft litlir eða ómerkilegir og virðist jafnvel reiðast enn meira þegar þú reynir að vera til staðar, viðurkenna tilfinningar eða bjóða knús😮💨
Á þessu námskeiði fjalla ég um misskildu börnin með stóra hjartað og sterku réttlætiskenndina sem eiga við tilfinningar sem virðast oft vera númeri of stórar. Þetta eru börn sem eru yfirleit klár, hæfileikarík og hugmyndarík - eru með djúpa hugsun og mikla samkennd en á sama tíma eiga erfitt með að tjá tilfinningarnar sínar og forðast samtöl um erfiða hluti eða atvik. Það getur verið ruglingslegt að eiga við þessa kraftmiklu krakka sem við vitum að geta svo mikið en virðast alltof oft festast í pirring, reiði og svart/hvítri hugsun.
Ef þú tengir þá ertu ekki ein/einn - og þú ert ekki að gera allt vitlaust, þó þér líði sjálfsagt oft þannig🥺
Rannsóknir um Viðkvæm og viljasterk börn hafa átt hug minn allan síðustu 4-5 árin og ég get ekki beðið eftir því að deila með ykkur því sem ég hef komist að!❤️
Á námskeiðinu lærir þú:
- Að skilja Viðkvæm og Viljasterk börn betur
- Hvernig við setjum þessum kraftmiklu börnum mörk án þess að draga úr þeim sjálfstraust og sjálfsálit.
- Hvernig við styðjum við erfið skapofsaköst
- Hvernig við hjálpum þessum börnum að þróa tilfinningafærni og tilfinningastjórn.
Get ekki BEÐIÐ eftir því að sjá ykkur💃🙌🏼😍
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![Still dreaming of our time at Hoshino Resorts TOMAMU, — the best family ski resort in Japan. Already looking forward to next year’s trip! ❄️🎿
This video is part of the ad campaign we filmed for Hoshino Resorts TOMAMU last winter, capturing one of our favorite experiences: the magical Ice Village.
At the Ice Village, you walk through a forest glowing with ice sculptures and lights, slide down a slide made entirely of ice, go ice skating, enjoy meals inside ice igloos, and roast marshmallows over an open fire for a sweet treat.
We’ve visited this ski resort three years in a row, and every time we make sure to plan a special evening at the Ice Village with the kids — it’s pure magic.
For more info on skiing in Japan, follow hoshinoresorts_tomamu_en ! 🏔️✨
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![As someone who’s had to work HARD in adulthood to overcome a low sense of self-worth, fear of rejection, and the feeling of never being good enough — my highest priority as a parent is to instill in my children an unshakable sense that they are worthy of unconditional love, respect, and acceptance. 💕
Being away from my kids this Mother’s Day has stirred up a lot. This is the message I kept coming back to.
As they grow older, I often find myself wondering: Am I doing enough? Are my conscious efforts building a strong enough foundation — one that can hold them steady through the inevitable ways my own imperfections will leave their mark?
There’s something both beautiful and humbling about accepting that even with the best intentions, we’re still imperfect humans — and that it’s our imperfections that make life real, meaningful, and worth living.
Without something to bump up against, to stretch and grow through… where would the learning be?
So on this Mother’s Day, this message feels like a gentle, timely reminder — a soft recalibration of my parenting compass. 🧭
Do you have a highest goal or priority as a parent? I’d love to hear. ❤️
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![There can be no real confidence or high self-esteem without a positive sense of self-worth first. So as parents wanting to support our kids confidence we need to focus on practices that will help us preserve our kids inherent sense of self-worth.
Here are the top practices I have prioritised as a parent to support my kids positive sense of self worth💕
1. Start by asking yourself if you might be over-walking your child’s appearance, ‘good behaviour’ and achievements over their true essence.
✨Does my child have to consistently ‘earn’ my love and approval?🤔
2. Don’t rely on external motivators such a punishments and rewards in order to ‘manage’ your child’s behaviour.
✨Instead: practice adopting respectful/conscious parenting practices that are grounded in honest, healthy, shame-free boundary setting.
3. Avoid putting labels on your child (shy, troublemaker, too sensitive, good girl….) or generally linking your child’s behaviour to who they are as a person.
✨ Instead: practice using more neutral and accepting ways to talk about your child’s behaviour - ‘sometimes I notice you have a hard time with xyz’, ‘it looks like Lilly is feeling shy right now’….
4. Instead of praising outcomes and abilities, focus on noticing and sincerely valuing the process over product.
✨ we don’t want our children getting stuck seeking external validation or only feeling valued when they are doing, performing & succeeding.
5. Don’t compare your child to others and commit to using non-judgmental language when speaking (and even thinking!) about yourself or other people.
✨Ok this one is probably one of the MOST important ones!🙏🏻
6. And in that note: Model a positive sense of self-worth yourself!
✨Remember: We teach best what we embody ourselves
8. Adopt a mindset of unconditional positive regard towards your child and learn to set empathic limits without shame to their off-track behaviour.
✨ Shame is one of the most ruthless killers of self-worth and confidence
9. Celebrate authenticity and allow your child to grow into their authentic self without trying to mould them into what YOU deem is acceptable or desirable
Let me hear your thoughts on confidence below!💕]()
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![Boredom is the bridge to creativity - are we allowing our kids enough opportunities to cross it????
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Here’s the thing, boredom’s isn’t a problem to solve—it’s an opportunity to flex our creativity muscle and learn to be ok without constant stimulation, company or entertainment. And it’s a muscle that needs to be trained! The more opportunities our kids get to SIT WITH their boredom, the better they will get at tolerating it and find something to do💫
But let’s be honest: it’s not always easy to sit with😮💨. As parents, it can be so tempting to jump in, offer a distraction, and rescue our kids from that uncomfortable feeling. I get it—I’ve been there too a million times.
But we have to remind ourselves that boredom is fertile ground. It’s where creativity is born, where imagination takes root, and where our children begin to discover what lights them up from within!
As founder of respectful parenting and my life long mentor janetlansbury Lansbury says, ‘Boredom is the wellspring of genius.’ 🙌🏼 The more we allow our children to move through the uncomfortableness of boredom —without fixing, distracting, or entertaining — the more we allow them to get to experience making it to the other side!
It might take patience—but it’s definitely worth it🙌🏼
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![Ridiculous or amazing? Maybe a bit of both?🤪😂
I’m curious - would you take your kids to a hotel like this or is it too over the top?
In the end, beds were clean and comfortable and kids played happily for hours. I would say over all the best part was their faces when we first walked in 😅
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![I honestly don’t think anyone can argue with this!🫣
If we are TRULY honest with ourselves - and I’ll be the first one to admit 🙋♀️ that discharging my own anger after being triggered by my kids at tiens when I’m not be able to access the emotional maturity needed to self regulate myself is ABSOLUTELY the real reason behind my adult tantrums of rapid fire lecturing, shaming and coming up with punishments or consequences to ‘teach my kids a lesson’…..
All we have to do is look back at these dysregulated moments and recognize all the ways we could have handled a situation better to realise punishments are never really about teaching kids a lesson… Of course there is also MASSIVE misinformation on brain development and on how children avtuallt learn best so a lot of people DO indeed believe that punishments are the only way kids will learn - and that’s why pointing this out and calling it what it is is so important!🙏🏻
In order to actually learn, human beings need to be open to able to internalize these lessons… and so working toward being the regulated adult who sets and follows through with limits with confidence, emotional maturity, compassion and connection is really the only way our kids ACTUALLY learn and again are able to internalize the lessons we hope to teach them. Punishments and shame block our children’s capacity to learn because it sends them straight into further dysregulation and defensiveness, neither being states of learning.
What do you think? Is this oversimplification or are we all just adult children discharging our anger in immature ways and calling it parenting????🤪]()
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![It’s my husbands birthday and I couldn’t help myself….😭
You’re my favourite person and I love you so much❤️ Happy Birthday orrihelga 🎉🎉🎉
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![It’s been sold out for MONTHS - and now it’s back in stock!!😭😭
A unique, flip-format book with two sides that meet in the middle - each exploring opposite side of the emotion spectrum. It’s a beautiful book that fosters emotional intelligence, respectful communication, and healthy boundaries, including language for parents and powerful affirmations for your children.
I basically took the core message of what I share in my work as a respectful parenting educator and put it in a children’s book because I could NOT find any book out there that helped children and their parents navigate emotions in a way that aligned with Respectful Parenting🥹❤️
The book is on 30% off right now. If you want the link comment BOOK or find link in bio📚
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![Three years in a row we’ve chosen to stay at the SAME skii resort in Japan - the gorgeous hoshinoresorts.tomamu hoshinoresorts_tomamu_en 🙌🏼⛷️❄️
I always get questions on where to go skiing in Japan - we have tried many different places but the best fit for the WHOLE family (also my husband who is an avid skier!) we haven’t found anything better than Hoshino Resorts Tomamu (we stay at the Risonare)
This video only shows the rooms and part of the slobs but I want to make another one with all the different activities on site so stay tuned for that!
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![What do u think? Too harsh???🤔
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🎉Comment: ‘Tell me more!’ to get all the info + free preview of the WW course🎉
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Most parents have a harder time setting and holding personal boundaries than non-negotiable boundaries that relate directly to our child’s safety - like getting into the car seat, not climbing on the table or playing with a kitchen knife.
One reason being that personal boundaries vary from day to day.
They depend on our mood/needs/wants and preferences and a lot of the time:
👉🏻Sometimes we’re totally up for a dance party in the living room, other days we have a headache and loud music is too much for us🤷♀️
The second reason we may have a hard time setting and holding personal boundaries is that as parents our natural instinct is to want to keep our kids happy!
We love our kids so dearly we are instinctively willing to do anything for them!
So we choose to put our needs last in order to keep our kids happy.
Don’t get me wrong here - I’m not saying that we should put our personal needs above everything else as parents, babies and children need high support, a lot of nurturing and intunement💛
But setting personal boundaries when appropriate doesn’t mean ME FIRST, it means ME TOO🙏🏻
It’s so important to understand that all those reluctant “yeses”, playing with our kids when we actually don’t want to, taking them with us into the bathroom when we’re deeply craving just a few minutes of privacy…eventually accumulates into negative thoughts and resentful feelings towards our kids, which ultimately undermines the parent-child relationship!
To be able to truly enjoy parenting, enjoy our kids - respect needs to go both ways🙏🏻
Our kids will never choose to give us the break we need, we are the ones responsible for keeping the dynamic in the relationship healthy.
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🎉Doors to our best selling course ‘Welcoming the Waves of Emotions - Setting Limits With Confidence and Calm’ are now OPEN! 🎉🥰 💃
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![Doors to our best selling Welcoming the Waves of Emotions course is are OPENING in just 24 hours! 🎉
Comment ‘I NEED THIS!’ and I’ll send you the code for 20% off!❤️❤️❤️
Here’s what the WWE course teaches you:
✨HOW exactly to set clear and effective empathic limits - step-by-step
✨WHAT limits and rules to set
✨HOW to deal with BBIG explosive emotions that come up for our children
✨And then just as importantly how to deal with OUR OWN big explosive emotions as parents❤️🩹
If you’re ready to start the year in a NEW energy and become a calm, confident parent that actually ENJOYS this parenting gig - the Welcoming the Waves if Emotions course is for you🥹
🎉 Link in BIO for more info and FREE preview 🎉
Can’t wait to take you on this journey!💃
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![After spending 10 years in the Respectful Parenting space there is ONE misconception that rules them all… 👉🏼that kids raised with respect never hear ‘no’ or can do whatever they want 🙄 Ever heard that one?😅
And I get it!
Most of us were raised by either passive or harsh and authoritarian parenting styles… so it can be really difficult to imagine there being ANOTHER way, a way where clear boundaries are set with empathy and compassion. Where it’s our true values and believe systems, needs of the family or just ‘life’ that influence what limits we set and not fear of our kids upset or crying (ever heard about kids ruling the household with crying??? You want the truth? it’s not the kids.. it’s OUR fear of the potential meltdown that’s ruling the household🫣).
And so, if a parent truly embraces all the aspects of the Respectful Parenting approach, INCLUDING, getting to a place where you don’t fear your child’s tears anymore and see crying as a natural even necessary part of childhood - that parent will already have a WAY easier time setting and holding necessary limits and boundaries!
Like the wonderful mom.ma.g says so well:
“Boundaries are essential because they provide children with safety, structure and guidance, but how we communicate them matters. Being gentle means approaching discipline with patience, empathy and connection rather than fear and control. It’s not about avoiding rules, it’s about teaching rules in a way that builds trust and helps them grow into compassionate, confident individuals”
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💥Doors open this Saturday, Feb 8! Limited spots available. Comment WAITLIST and get early access with 20% off!💥
See you on the other side!🥰💃
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![Want ALL my parenting tools??? Type WAITLIST in comments for early access to my best selling course: ‘Welcoming the Waves of Emotions - Setting Limits with Confidence and Calm’ + ✨My ‘6 Steps to Handle the Meltdown’ sheet delivered straight to your inbox🎉
Doors open next week! - Limited spots available!💃
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Now,, For some real talk:
Staying regulated when parenting gets rough doesn’t just ‘magically happen’!
When I’m showing up the way I’m proud of as a mom, like proper knocking it out of the park kind of way, it’s because I’m super intentionally using ALL the tools in my respectful parenting toolbox!
Try implementing some of the following, it REALLY helps (!!!)
PERSONAL BOUNDARIES:
“I don’t want you to climb on my back. Do you want to sit on my lap instead?”
“I’ll get you a glass of juice as soon as I finish the last bites of my toast”
“This is the last time we’ll be listening to this song for now. We will listen to it again at a later time”
“I’m not in the mood to play chase right now but I’d love to sit with you and watch you play/run/jump in your room”
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THE DO-OVER
“Ahh, that’s not now I wanted to say/do/handle that - can we try again?”
“I didn’t like how I was talking to you right now, I’m going to try saying that a again in a calmer way”
Special points for pressing the ‘Do-over button’ (you and your child’s nose, It’s become a staple in my home and my kids even use it on each other when they want to reset and start over)
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MELTDOWN MANTRAS
“My child is having a hard time not giving me hard time”
“Crying is good, I can welcome this release”
“This is not an emergency, I can handle this”
“Peace start’s with me”
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![I needed this reminder so much today🥹 - honestly I could not go through my days w 3 kids without my mindset reminders❤️
If you’ve been here awhile you know I love my mantras and reframes - And the reason I say parenting is 80% mindset and only 20% practical is that in the end it’s your mindset and core believes that you fall back on moments of stress and chaos!🥹
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ATTN: I will be opening doors to my best selling respectful parenting course: ‘Welcoming the Waves of Emotions - setting limits with confidence and calm’” in just 7 days! 🎉🎉🎉
This is your chance to COMPLETELY change how you handle your kids difficult emotions and start the year as the calm, confident parent I know you want to be for your kids🥹❤️🙏🏻
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![He wanted ice cream for breakfast, we said no…
He got upset and my husband allowed him to sit with his disappointment and find his way back to calm simply by my husband being calm himself.
Feelings don’t last forever. And crying is NOT the enemy - quite the contrary!
Hear me out - ✨Our kids crying because of a limit we’re upholding is their process to actually ACCEPT the limit. They know we won’t change our minds, and so they’re processing and internalizing our ‘no’ through tears of disappointment.✨
My husband being a source of safe & calm energy during our 3 y old’s mini meltdown this morning is such a great in the moment example of what it looks like to teach our kids how to cope with big feelings in a healthy way.
They learn how to calm down by being shown how!
Furthermore, our kids getting a chance to internalise our ‘no’ and to practice accepting our limits in this way is an extremely important process that is way too often rushed or cut short by well meaning adults.
For most of us it takes a radical mindset shift to start seeing tears as good and important - For most of us welcoming our kids waves of emotions is a foreign concept that was not in any way, shape or form modelled to us growing up😣
Our natural reaction to tears is to distract, ‘sush’ or scold the crying child. It’s because of our own discomfort, panic and fear of emotions that we either shut them down with our own anger or we find other ways to ‘fix’ their feelings.
Sadly, because we have such a hard time sitting with their tears we often end up giving in just to stop the crying - leaving our kids not having had the chance to flex their ‘accepting our no’ muscle only to cry harder next time making us prone to give in again and again…A vicious cycle we’ve all experienced!
If you want to work on your ‘no’s and learn how to support your kids emotion regulation skills - I will be opening doors to my best selling online course: ‘Welcoming the Waves of Emotions’ next week! 🎉
‼️Limited spots - Type WAITLIST for early access🙌🏼
This is your chance to COMPLETELY change how you handle your kids BUG emotions💥 and start the year as the calm, confident parent I know you want to be🥹❤️🙏🏻]()
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2025-01-13 01:07:14
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![What do Skiing🎿 hiking ⛰️ and surfing 🏄♀️ all have in common?? - They are all activities that can be quite challenging for our kids (or anyone) to start with, require a pretty high level of physical endurance but at the same time are incredibly rewarding and enjoyable once you get going!🤩
For all these activities (and of course most experiences in general) the first few times really set the tone for the rest so make sure to listen in and keep the 3 things mentioned in the video in mind as you start off!
Those of you who have successfully introduced your kids to Skiing or similar activities do you agree with this list? What would you add???
Personal experience is SO insightful so please share your top tips with the rest of us!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Because I know you’ll ask, we’re staying at the amazing hoshinoresorts.tomamu for the third year in a row🙏🏻 - it is an absolutely amazing family ski-in-ski out resort that I can not recommend enough to anyone ever planning on coming to Japan to ski!⛷️❤️
See you soon yoshiamigo adamliaw
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2025-01-04 08:43:03
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![2025 list is up🎉🥳 Comment QUESTIONS for the full list of 150+ questions to ask yfir kids!❤️
Every year at the end of the year I ask my kids a series of questions and write down their answers.
Looking back on last years replies to my ‘End of year questions’ I realised more than ever how much I value having an honest snippet of who they are, how they think and what they like in that particular moment of time.
Because of this continuous practice I’ve gathered over 150 questions I keep in a categorised list ready for me to pull out every NYE and ask my kids the 20 or so that stand out to me that year - I’ve been wanting to make this list available to you all for years and last year I finally did - To my surprise it became me MOST shared post of that year so of course the ‘yearly list of questions’ has to become a staple on here!
To get access to the list of questions just type the word ‘QUESTIONS’ below and tag a friend that would love this list too and I’ll send you more info! 😍
Happy new year and may you live in kindness, purpose and alignment to your true self today in the year to come❤️
Love Kristin
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2025-01-01 09:05:37
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![Since this statement is actually my own😅…I wholeheartedly AGREE🎅🏼🫡
Let me explain:
The holidays are a magical time of year, but for parents, the Santa issue can pose a real dilemma. As adults, we have a tendency to think in terms of black and white, so when it comes to Santa, many parents feel like they only have two choices:
👉🏻 Lie and tell kids Santa is real
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👉🏻 Be honest and ruin the magic of Christmas 😣
But what if there was another option???
What if there was a way to embrace the magic of Santa Claus without being dishonest?🤔
It may sound backwards at first, but I truly think it’s possible to believe in Santa without believing he’s real🙏🏻
Let me explain.
In our home, we’re honest about Santa and we always have been. My kids have asked us directly whether Santa Claus is real, and we tell them the truth:
‘No, Santa isn’t a real person like me and you. He doesn’t really live at the North Pole with little elves and reindeer, and he doesn’t really fly around the world in one night jumping down chimneys and delivering gifts.
But we also tell them that this is a magical story that a lot of people love to imagine and pretend is real when it’s Christmas time✨
The thing is, children don’t need things to be real to enjoy them.
Children have such rich imaginations, so much creativity, so much wonder and they don’t view the world in black and white. There’s this whole grey space that our kids can inhabit so easily, this place of magic, daydreaming, and pretending✨
When we let our adult brains get in the way, we don’t give our children enough credit.
In fact, my kids are not deprived of holiday magic at all🎄✨ Even though they know Santa isn’t real, they like to read books about Santa and engage in imaginative play, pretending he and his elves are up there at the North Pole hard at work making gifts. This pretending is entirely child-led; my kids determine how far we go with the story.
In my opinion, the most important thing isn’t whether Santa is real or not; it’s all about the space you create around the story💛
Now I’m dying to know - Do you tell your kids the truth about Santa? What approach are you taking on all this???
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![The reminder I wish I had gotten when things got rough🥹
It has NOT been easy, these children push us to the limit and at the same time they carve out the most special tender place in our hearts❤️
They are the keys 🔑 we are given to grow in ways we wouldn’t be able without them… ‘key children’ like author Elizabeth Slade calls these types of kids in her book ‘Montessori in Action’ I absolutely love the term!
What about you? Are you parenting a child that holds the keys to significant growth in your life?💫
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![Want my top advice for packing light?🧳
1. Let’s start with a simple truth
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We all tend to wear pretty much the same things for a big portion of our trips. Maybe not the same tops and shirts bc they might stain BUT if you have a favourite pair of jeans, shorts, skirt, cozy wear or sweater - I bet you you’re wearing your 1-2 staples a LOT more than you might want to admit.
So, a brilliant strategy is to simply acknowledge and accept this truth🤷♀️
…And then PLAN to work with this as you pack and intentionally take clothes that you’ll be happy to wear more than once and that work well in many different scenarios🏆!
2 Don’t forget you can WASH the clothes you bring. I know we ‘know’ this but in reality we also tend to forget when we are packing for a trip. Of course it depends on where you’re staying - If you’re staying in an Airbnb you can pretty easily book a place with a laundry machine💪🏼
But even if you’re in a hotel with no access to laundry (except for a ridiculously priced in-room service)… if your ‘staple’ jeans or Lululemon’s that you planned to wear 50% of the time get stained - you can easily hand wash them and hang to dry👏🏼
3 And lastly, it’s essential to keep reminding yourself that you will NOT be staying in an isolated island with no civilisation around!🏝️🙈
If you keep repeating that line to yourself as you’re packing you might just resist the urge to take everything you MIGHT need with you🙃
Thing is, most of us pack 30% essentials and 70% ‘just in case’ items!😅
I’m not saying it’s not handy to pack flue medication in case your kids get sick BUT to take your whole medicine cabinet with you ‘in case’ is simply not necessary since we can always pick up things we need as we travel! ✈️
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As for carry-on bags, I hardly ever pack snacks since it takes up a lot of space, I usually pick something up at the airport and carry it in a separate bag that I can dispose of after.
I also don’t pack toys in carry-on bags - we have a routine of buying one activity/coloring book in the airport bookstore + a small toy and the novelty of these items keeps my kids occupied👌
Complete packing list in comments!✈️🙌🏻🫡🧳
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![It’s so important to consistently send our kids the message that it’s ok to make mistakes and that coming to us and admitting that they messed up won’t ever get them into trouble.
Of course if there are some lessons to address we’ll have a talk with them, we can sit down and discuss what needs to be discussed. But my kids will never be ‘in trouble’ for being honest about their mistakes. On the contrary, I always make a point to thank them for doing the right thing - even if they didn’t get it right the first time🙏
Never forget that we’re parenting for the long run - And making it safe for our kids to come to US when they mess up is one of the most important goals we can ever have as parents❤️
Did you grow up with parents who you knew you could go to if you ever got into trouble? Or was your first thought ‘I hope my mom/dad doesn’t find out!’ When something came up?
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Credit to the wonderful mom.ma.g for inspiring this beautiful list of sentences to say when your kids mess up - I added 1 or 2 but most of these are hers and I love them so much ❤️😍
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![Oh just my FAVOURITE birthday party activity ever😇🙌🏻
I’ve done this 3 times for my kids by now and every single time it’s a huge success!
Not just because the kids get totally into it - creating, building, imagining,,, actually PLAYING and not just aimlessly running around in pure overstimulation and chaos🙈😅
But also because this activity requires NOTHING from the adult! In fact, the LESS you interfere the MORE these kids are going to play so it’s the complete opposite of the role most adults take on when planning their kids birthday party where SO much energy is spent keeping kids entertained!😮💨
I don’t know about you but as much as I love the idea of throwing my kids a birthday party I keep looking for ways to make it LESS chaotic and MORE truly enjoyable, for everyone involved - I’ve tired many things but ‘cardboard box birthdays’ will forever remain one of the most successful, WHOLESOME, birthday theme I’ve come across so far😍
All you need:
✅Cardboard boxes - any sizes are fun
✅Tape
✅Blankets/sheets
✅Markers
What do you think?
Would you do this?🥳🎉📦
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On average, Kristin Mariella Fridjonsdottir gets 17.5K likes and 372 comments per post. (Historical)
