Category Archives: Healthy Living

10 Tips for Cultivating a Healthy Mommy Mindset

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Defining Mindset Mindset is an individual’s set of beliefs and attitudes that predetermine his or her interpretation and response to life’s circumstances, particularly challenges and difficulties. Stanford psychologist Dr. Carol S. Dweck has written extensively about mindset and how mindset predicts achievement and success. In her mindset theory, she describes 2 types of mindset: fixed and growth. With a fixed mindset, intelligence is innate and unchangeable. The primary goal is to appear smart. Challenges are avoided. Disappointment and failure leads to discouragement and giving up. Criticism is taken personally. With a growth mindset, intelligence is honed and developed. The primary […]

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Rooted in the Word: Back-to- School Scriptures for the Kids

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Here’s Comes August Now only a few weeks away, the month of August is always an exciting one in the Cox home. We celebrate three birthdays, my two girls and my husband, and the new school year begins. This year our baby girl starts big kid school, the last run of kindergarten for our brood. Cue the tears. We also have a third grader and a seasoned middle schooler who is starting seventh grade. Our children spend the bulk of their day at school, learning new material and mastering new skills. They also face real challenges, from bullies to academic […]

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I’m Done with Work-Life Balance

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The Fallacy of Work-Life Balance This whole concept of work-life balance really caught on some years ago. Executives, educators, health care professionals, moms – we all chanted the same refrain, “We want work-life balance.” Work-life balance is this glorious yet elusive idea that we can achieve equilibrium within our daily lives, honoring our professional commitments while fulfilling our personal obligations, all while preserving our sanity. Perhaps it’s a flexible work schedule, bring-your-child-to-work day, or taking work home, but the truth is none of it works. Here are a few of the challenges. 1.What work-life balance looks like depends on who’s […]

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Leveling Up in 2019 with Powerful Words

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My love of words I fell in love with words as a child. Though I no longer recall the day, the memory remains permanently etched in the recesses of my mind. To honor my birth as his first child, my father penned a beautiful poem entitled, “My Little Lee-Lee.” I remember listening as he read each word, completely enamored. A few years later I was able to read them for myself. That my father had crafted such a delightful ode for his baby girl using a series of words strung together just so cultivated my love for language and the […]

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Antidotes to 5 Parenting Pitfalls

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Parenting is hard work, and the pitfalls are many. Our children don’t always listen, the try our patience, and they frequently test limits. Here are 5 ways to conquer common parenting hazards: 1. You’ve got to be more flexible Families are as diverse as the parents and children that comprise them. We bring our own personality traits, strengths and weaknesses, gifts and talents, preferences, and hang-ups. Those similarities and differences define the core of our identity and make our lives and relationships rich, interesting, and unexpected. To think that one broadly applicable parenting strategy would work for all children and […]

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5 Tips for Managing the Morning Rush

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Au revoir, summer. Hello, new school year.  It’s back to the grind for many parents and their children. If your family is anything like mind, this new school year signals the return of the weekday morning mad dash, the dreaded morning rush. This year we have a preschooler, a 2nd grader, and a 6th grader. Nobody knows what they want to wear to school, shoes and backpacks have gone missing, everybody wants something different for breakfast, one child forgot to brush their teeth, and invariably another kid has like a hundred forms that need to be signed all within an […]

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