Happy Holidays to you all from Balanced Parenting! It’s been a while since I’ve said “HI” and I thought I’d take a moment to reflect. I started out 2023 with…

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What’s your “Bruno”?  Many of you have watched the Disney movie, Encanto, by now and have heard the song, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno, No, No, No…”  Does it get stuck in your…

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It’s Back to School time! FINALLY!!! For the first time in a year and a half, kids are getting their needs met with full-day schooling. Their development is finally getting fed.…

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Hello, my friends, How is everyone doing? Not great, right? It’s ok. You’re not crazy and you may not even have realized the connection, but the struggles we are all…

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Reflections on 2020 A year ago this month, I remember feeling really excited about the prospect of the year 2020. The year of “clear vision”. I could sense there was a…

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Hello, my friends, Here we are, six months into the pandemic and quarantine lifestyle. We are living a lifestyle few of us would choose and most of us never envisioned.  Though there…

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Hello Friends! It’s been over two and a half months since quarantine. Things are beginning to open up and some people are going out. Reconnecting, readjusting, and then the tragic…

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Happy Mothers’ Day! Is it happy? For me, it’s bittersweet. I’ll get to be with my kids, but not with my mom nor my mother in law. We are super…

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As I sat down to write this newsletter, I had a wave of grief come over me. I’m not sure what triggered it. Maybe the “Stay Home” commercial on TV…

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