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Costumes For Moms (SCARY MOM HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARODY)


Costumes For Moms (SCARY MOM HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARODY)

The Parenting Junkie gives simple Halloween costume ideas! Need ideas for costumes for moms? We have 4 Halloween costumes for moms that you probably already have in your closet. Halloween mom costumes can be simple! DIY costumes for moms means using what you already have in your closet. Be sure to check out this funny Halloween videos and this funny mom videos on Halloween Candy Jimmy Kimmel. Remember his prank? The Jimmy Kimmel Halloween Candy prank where parents tell their kids they ate their Halloween candy? Jimmy Kimmel I ate all your Halloween candy prank is not as funny as it sounds. Find out why. Mom costume ideas can be fun and easy and SCARY! Be a scary mom this Halloween! You don’t need a Pinterest Halloween! Simplify your holidays with these costumes. This is a parenting parody. Parent parody video on Halloween costumes. Parenting parody videos on how to be a scary mommy! Should we celebrate Halloween? And how should we celebrate Halloween for kids?

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Wax Paper Autumn Leaf ‘Stained Glass’ (Easy and Beautiful Natural Fall Craft for Preschoolers)

Wax Paper Autumn Leaf ‘Stained Glass’ (Easy and Beautiful Natural Fall Craft for Preschoolers)

This fall craft is simple enough for even less-crafty families, makes good use of the treasure of leaves your little one collects on autumn walks, and looks absolutely beautiful in the light of a window. All you need to do this is about half an hour, waxed paper, leaves, and glue!

We tape our waxed paper leaf ‘stained glass’ over a front-facing window for a little more privacy as the days get shorter, but this leaf craft will bring seasonal warmth into any window you choose.

Craft Traditions

Working with toddlers and preschoolers, I learned that while adults may get bored doing the same thing over and over, children absolutely delight in the repetitivity of doing the same activity day after day, or year after year. Adults enjoy some repetition as well, that’s why traditions are part of every culture.   This craft is our fall tradition.

To keep our traditions fun, and not obligations, we keep them very simple!  Remember, our children don’t care how elaborate the craft is, they enjoy the process and spending time with us. If you love elaborate crafts, you may want to take some time to yourself to do those as a form of self care.

Another tradition: Dairy-Free Creamy Hot Cocoa (GAPS, Paleo)

The love of repetition, and delight in the simple is especially true with our preschool and toddler age groups, though even older children often shyly join in for the story time, or seasonal crafts like this one.

Read similar: 12 Gifts that Encourage Healthy Independence for Toddlers

Working memory and repetitive activities

For children with special needs that have problems with processing or short term memory, or adults with neurological conditions that affect memory, you may find that they can tap into long-term memory better than short term memory. In addition to those with special needs (especially developmental delays, and alzheimer’s) that impair memory, preschool-age children are still developing their capacity for working memory. (source)

For these individuals, they may find it easier to carry out a craft that they did last year, or have done many of the previous years, than be able to implement a new craft – even if you are right there telling them what to do. It’s because they’re drawing from long-term memory, not ‘working’ or short-term memory.

Fall Wax Paper Leaf Craft

This craft is a yearly favorite that we repeat with each season.

 

Besides fall leaves, we use the same method with tissue paper stars and ‘tree ornaments’ for winter, and hearts for Valentine’s day.  Sometimes we even do shamrocks for St Patrick’s day and snowflakes with glitter for January! 

First, gather leaves and press to flatten between the pages of a large book.

While you may want to pick the most pinterest-perfect leaves in their vibrant fall colors, do not be surprised if your children are amazed at the leaf that is crinkly and turning brown, or the half-eaten green leaf that the caterpillar visited.  They all make beautiful crafts!

 After gathering leaves, allow to dry if they are rain or dew covered.
Next, tuck the dry leaves between pages of a large book, not overlapping. There is a chance that they will rot, rather than dry cleanly, so choose a book that is already ‘well loved’ or you aren’t going to be bothered if it gets discolored- like a telephone book.
Once the leaves are tucked into the book, you can add more books to the top to weigh it down even further.  I use a cutting board and a kettlebell to weigh mine down.
Leave the leaves pressed in the book for at least an hour.
To preserve the color of the leaves, you will want to press them until they are completely dry; about 3 weeks. In reality, we ‘press’ them until they’re flat, about 2 hours. They will discolor a bit in our window display, but we re-make these year after year, and it doesn’t bother me that they turn colors a little bit.
After pressing

Once your leaves are pressed, or at least flat, tear out 2-foot sections of waxed paper.
Using glue sticks (we used disappearing purple), or watered down white glue, cover the waxed paper.  The white glue may bead up a little bit, this is okay.
Place your leaves on your paper, next to each other and slightly (but not completely) overlapping. Try to keep all parts of the leaves on the paper/glue.
Cover a second sheet of waxed paper, similar size with glue and press, glue side down, over the top of the leaves. Hold the waxed paper (as long as it’s not too drippy) up in the window at this point and admire your work!
Allow to dry, trim off rough edges, and tape to the window where desired.
Optional step: You can make a construction paper ‘frame’ for your leaf ‘stained glass’, and glue the waxed paper part in as the ‘glass’.  Then it can be hole-punched at the top and hung, rather than taped, in the window for a more finished look.

More crafts:

Homemade Playsilks Made With Food Dye

Make a Waldorf Doll for Infants

Make a Wool Felt Birthday Crown

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Dr. Shefali on Conscious Parenting vs Traditional Parenting (EXPLAINED!)


Dr. Shefali on The Conscious Parent vs. Traditional Parenting (EXPLAINED!)

The Parenting Junkie interviews Dr. Shefali, bestselling author of The Conscious Parent. Have you heard of Conscious Parenting? Do you want to know how it relates to mindful parenting? Shefali Tsabary teaches that conscious discipline starts with the parent. Dr Shefali parenting is a paradigm shift and when parents come to dr shefali conscious parenting, their worlds transform. As did mine! I’m so glad to introduce to you Dr Shefali Tsabary 2018 because Shefali Tsabary Discipline changes everything. When you listen to Shefali Tsabary parenting you might be interested in reading Shefali Tsabary The Conscious Parent. I highly recommend it! Shefali Tsabary 2018 and conscious parenting Dr Shefali discusses how The Conscious Parent Dr Shefali answers What is Conscious Parenting. If you can come to Dr Shefali EVOLVE 2018 I will see you there! It’s October 26-28 and I’m thrilled to be going as a featured speaker. Links to Dr Shefali books, specifically the conscious parenting book are listed below.

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ADVICE FOR DADS (Say THIS to your wife!)


Advice for Dads (Say THIS to your wife!)

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Judgmental Parenting (5 Powerful Ways to Mom Shame Parody)


Judgmental Parenting (5 Powerful Ways to Mom Shame Parody)

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Birthday Party Ideas for Minimalists (10 Tips for a Meaningful Celebration)


Birthday Party Ideas for Minimalists (10 Tips for a Meaningful Celebration)

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How to Declutter Your Clothes (5 MOM FRIENDLY TIPS FOR A MINIMALIST CAPSULE WARDROBE)


How to Declutter Your Clothes (5 MOM FRIENDLY TIPS FOR AN AWESOME CAPSULE WARDROBE)

The Parenting Junkie will show you how to declutter your clothes with 5 mom friendly tips! Are you wondering how to put together a capsule wardrobe during motherhood? Make room for joy! Whether you need a postpartum wardrobe that’s flattering, a stay at home mom capsule wardrobe that makes you feel great or you need your nursing wardrobe handy for when you go back to work, Avital will show how you can use the konmari method decluttering clothes. This will work even if you need a seasonal capsule wardrobe. So come along and declutter with me closet edition. With these 5 tips you will know how to make a capsule wardrobe even if the season of your life requires a breastfeeding capsule wardrobe. Don’t shy away from decluttering clothes. I have a great capsule wardrobe storage guide for you to make your clothing storage system a joy to use. Get ready mom capsule wardrobe! The minimalist mom wardrobe can make your stay at home mom wardrobe exciting again as you reap the rewards of minimalism. Let’s dig in to how to declutter your wardrobe by starting with how to declutter your clothes closet.

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WHAT TO WEAR FOR BREASTFEEDING – 10 Must Know Tips (I’ve got you covered)


WHAT TO WEAR FOR BREASTFEEDING – 10 Must Know Tips (I’ve got you covered)

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HOW TO GET YOUR HIGH NEEDS BABY TO SLEEP (Newborn WON’T sleep?)


HOW TO GET YOUR HIGH NEEDS BABY TO SLEEP (Newborn WON’T sleep?)

The Parenting Junkie is here to talk on how to get your high needs baby to sleep. This will be helpful if you want to know how to get colicky baby to sleep. First things first, how to get high need baby to nap comes before how to get your baby to sleep through the night. Because sleep begets sleep let’s start with how to get your baby to nap especially if you don’t know how to get baby to sleep in crib. This goes for parents who are wondering how to get baby to sleep alone. As a Peaceful Parenting advocate Avital believes we can take a gentle sleep training approach while even learning how to sleep train a newborn. In this video, you’ll be encouraged by the wisdom of Magda Gerber RIE along with my best sleep tips for high need baby. If you have a high need baby sleep you are in the right place. If you are trying to find the answer to the cry it out method how long is too long question, keep listening. If you’re newborn won’t sleep, there’s a plot twist to this story so stay tuned if you think tongue tie affecting sleep is possible or if you think you have a tongue tied newborn.

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You Know We Have a Special Needs Child, But Here are 10 Things We Might Not Have Told You

You Know We Have a Special Needs Child, But Here are 10 Things We Might Not Have Told You

Hannah is the reason for Health, Home, & Happiness. If I had two typically developing children, I wouldn’t have done the whole GAPS journey, wouldn’t have so much to share with you on the internet, and most likely would be in a different line of work.  She has special needs, she had autism but it was healed with GAPS, but she still has a global delay diagnosis and we’re still trying alternative treatments to heal her body as much as possible.

Further reading: What is the GAPS Diet?

I love that I have the internet available to share what I have learned with all of you. Today I’m going to talk about some things that outsiders might not realize about families that have a special needs child in them. Of course, this is all true for me, but won’t be true for all families.

It’s hard to know what you don’t know

Before I had a child with special needs, there was so much about special needs families that I didn’t understand. And I know there is still tons I don’t understand- I have avoided the whole medically fragile/multiple hospital visits route, and I know I have readers there.  I have some readers with multiple children with special needs, some with higher functioning children, some with lower. We all love our kids though, and we all have different strengths and challenges.

Today I present 10 things that many special needs families often don’t talk about, but do often feel.  It’s a given that we love our children, and you’ll hear us talk about that and the rewarding parts of raising them, but this is some of the hard stuff:

We don’t have anything extra

1.  Parents of special needs children don’t come with any extra energy or more patience or understanding than anyone else.  It feels dismissive to us when people say to us, ‘God will only give you what you can handle, He must have known you could handle it.’ Yes, we’re handling it, and we understand that you can’t imagine yourself in our shoes, but it doesn’t mean that it’s any easier for us than it would be for you.

Emotional Exhaustion

2.  Sometimes the emotional enormity of it is more exhausting than the physical aspect of having a special needs child. For children that need to be carried and lifted more, our muscles build up strength (I have some killer arms, since I still carry my low tone 47 lb 6-year-old fairly often when she gets tired), but emotionally every developmental change, school placement, choosing alternative treatments, supervising and making medical decisions are just as exhausting this year as they were last year.

Navigating Services

3.  The services that are available for children with special needs are difficult to navigate and often expensive.  Before I had a SNC (special needs child) I assumed that if you had a SNC you just went and signed up for services, and someone told you exactly what to do, what you qualified for, and always acted in your child’s best interest.  In some places that is true, but in most cases the parents have to really network with other parents to see what’s available, apply and re-apply for a correct diagnosis because the standard testing may or may not accurately reflect the child’s actual needs, and fight through red tape to get the child to be placed in the appropriate setting. And then do it all over again in 6-12 months when their developmental needs or school placement changes.

For expenses- there is so much out there, but it costs so much more than stuff aimed at typically developing children! Horse therapy- $60/session, a visit to the naturopath $200, speech therapy $48 twice a week…

Further reading: Simple Budgeting to Reduce Stress

Paperwork and Phone Calls

4.  Paperwork and phone calls.  Tons and tons of it, from everyone that even looks at our child, and many people who don’t even see our SNC, 10 pages of paperwork is often requested, they look at it for 5 minutes, and then realize we’re not the right fit.

I keep an Excel document with the names, addresses, faxes, and phone numbers for everyone who currently and in the past has worked with my daughter and print it out before we see anyone.  I call it her resume.

Phone calls are hard, just like your children, our kids also act up while we’re on the phone. But as parents of SNC we’ve learned that it’s better to spend half an hour on the phone and make sure the specialist is actually something we need to go to before we drag the kids out for half the day for an appointment.

Family Priorities

5.  Our priorities change based on the entire family unit.  Sometimes we are focusing on limiting screen time, sometimes we’re focused on a special diet, sometimes we’re focused on a behavior issue, sometimes it’s academic, sometimes it’s just maintaining the progress we’ve made so far because the family is going through some other transition like moving or having a new baby.

It’s impossible for both the child and the parent to focus 100% on everything at once, so it may look like we’re changing our mind and jumping around a lot.  Or we might be changing our mind and jumping around a lot. I promise, though, we’re not doing this for fun or because we’re bored- we’re trying to find what works best for our family.

Further reading: 101 Family Friendly Summer Activities

We need Self Care Too

6.  We soon realize that we can’t give our kids 100% of us 100% of the time.  Because parenting a SNC is so intense, we eventually realize that we have to take ‘me time’ to avoid burnout. I had the idea that as a parent I could keep pushing myself and eventually I’d get used to it.

It took me 5 years, but eventually I learned that I have to take some time out and take a break from completely giving everything for my child.  I come back refreshed, and much better able to a good job as a parent.  It’s a good mental break too, to be somewhere where you’re not just known as a mom of a child with special needs.

Continue reading: Self Care for Moms

Childcare

7.  It’s super hard to find qualified childcare for our kids!  And we often need more of it than parents of typically developing children, since our kids require more of our attention when we are watching them and might not do well on standard errands.

I’ve been fortunate to find amazing nannies to help me out part time, but because my child takes so much attention, I have to pay quite a bit more since the babysitter can’t take other children alongside mine, and she needs a higher wage than the high school girl down the street that could watch my typically-developing children just fine.

The person providing childcare has to be experienced with special needs, on top of things, and has to have a personality that meshes with our child’s.

Parenting Advice

8.  Our children’s behavior issues are not from poor parenting.  Yes, consistency usually helps, but the way these children’s brains are wired and the sensory issues they deal with make them not respond to regular parenting techniques the way a typically developing child would.

I’ve personally found that other parents have more grace with me when I put a medic alert bracelet on my daughter, it kind of gives them the heads up that she’s a SNC and I tend to avoid most of the glares at the playground for age-inappropriate meltdowns.

We still have to go buy groceries, go to the bank, and get our car fixed just like everyone else – and sometimes plans can’t work around our children’s sensory issues, so they may be fussing in the store.  It’s just how it is, there isn’t always an option to ‘do it when someone else is watching her’.

Further reading: Are Sensory Issues Causing Your Child’s Meltdowns? 

Not Easily Offended

9.  It doesn’t offend us if you ask us about special needs at all. Unless we’re newly diagnosed or still trying to figure it out ourselves, in that case it might be overwhelming. But to a family who has been ‘doing the special needs thing’ for a while, we’re happy to talk to you and help in any way we can.

Many moms come up to me and want to ask if their toddler is showing signs of autism, or other special needs, and I’m always happy to talk about it with them (they’re usually not, and of course I’m not a medical professional but I’ve been around enough SNC that I’m fairly accurate on what’s developmentally appropriate and what’s not).

We want the best for them

10.  We want the best for our child, no matter the circumstances.  That’s why we work so hard, it isn’t because we’re ashamed, it isn’t because we’re trying to change something that can’t change, or that we’re in denial, it’s because we want to make sure we’re doing everything possible for our child to reach their fullest potential.

Further Reading:

10 tips to help you interact with our (special needs) family.
You Know My Child Has Special Needs… Preteen Edition
Special Needs Mamas, You Need Self Care
It’s a Sensory Issue (that’s why they’re melting down!)

 

 

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