Parenting

We moms have had some pretty intense conversations with our children over the last few months. We’ve had to talk about why we can no longer go to school, the museum, playground, to a friend’s or even to visit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywi3ianWCUI We spent some time talking to Dr. Bethany Cook, a Clinical Psychologist, Health Service Psychologist, and a Board Certified Music Therapist, about ways to take mental breaks. What started out as a conversation about mental breaks for parents, quickly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goOmKWIbbgA SFBAM recently talked with Dr. Michael Goran, PhD. - Co-director of the USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute and professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles - about all things sugar, including newly-released studies showing Type...

In the generation of the overwhelmingly influential social platform- tik tok, it's refreshing to see a startup push other creative options for children to express themselves beyond dancing video challenges. From my perspective, TikTok teaches our children how to...

In a world often bustling with competition and urgency, teaching kindness to children may seem like an optional soft skill. However, it’s quite the opposite. Kindness, as it turns out, is a critical component of our social fabric and...

You’ve probably seen this guy: He seems a little muted, like he’s holding something in, like he’s operating on autopilot so he doesn’t have to deal with whatever is happening inside. Society has taught him from an early age...

I learned the difference between a maze and a labyrinth when I was seven months pregnant. “A lot of people think labyrinths and mazes are the same, but they’re not,” our doula explained. “A maze is meant to trick...

One of the many hot topics this year has been about the babies conceived during quarantine. I get it, we had to shelter in place and some of us had some extra alone time together. But is it wrong...

Seeing your child have a febrile seizure is one of the scariest things you can experience. Most parents who witness them don’t know what’s going on because they didn’t have any previous warning that this could happen. “Now I know...

I started taking my twins to little classes/activities around town at about six months old. Initially, I would only do it if I could get my husband to come or on the rare occasion that a grandparent was in...