The More, The Merrier

Children crave connection and acceptance. They look to their caregivers to help inform the way they think about, feel about, and see themselves. If they feel consistently loved, accepted, and cared for by their parents (and other caregivers), they feel secure with themselves and in their world. That’s true no matter how many kids there are in your family, if your house is a mess, you yell more than you would like, or you need to give 768 reminders to your 10-year-old to put their shoes on. As a parent it can be so easy to lose touch with this foundational concept, and the distance from it can seem to drift further away every time your family grows, yet its simplicity is what I love about it…

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