Okay, let’s be real. Motherhood is an incredible blessing and amazing…but at times it’s also frustrating and completely exhausting. I have officially entered the parenting stage that I have talked about with parents for years! It’s called the terrible twos. If you have ever wondered exactly what happens to children when they reach the magical...
Becoming a parent has completely transformed me as a pediatrician. And I think it has a lot to do with perspective. When I was finally able to walk in the shoes of the parents I talked to everyday, I saw the advice that I had been giving in a new light. My words connected more...
Mindfulness is the art of paying attention to life on purpose. A great exercise to practice this is through our breathing. Since we take our breath with us everywhere, this is a useful technique for children to learn so that they can center themselves even in stressful situations. This is how you practice mindful breathing...
It’s hard enough being a human, but it’s even harder when there is another little human watching you. Before I became a mother, there were parts of myself that I wasn’t particularly proud of. But I felt like no one was really watching and I wasn’t hurting anyone…so I wasn’t too inspired to change. But...
In the book Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel, we learn of mindfulness exercises that you can practice with your children. One of my favorite ones is Summoning Your Personal Weather Report: Sit comfortably with your child Close your eyes Ask your child to close his or her eyes Then ask them to...
I knew there was something wrong when my stomach started to hurt every morning before school. It is true what they say, that the mind and the body are intimately connected. As a young child, I would often spend my summers in India visiting my grandparents. And since the summers were long, my ambitious parents...
It turns out that there may be truth to the phrase ‘go with your gut’ or the feeling of ‘butterflies in your stomach’ when you are nervous. Over the past few years, there has been a growing body of research on the brain-gut connection and the presence of ‘a second brain’ that exists within the...
Even though it has been a year and a half since those days, I still remember them vividly. On one day in particular, as I was walking in circles in my living room with my crying baby, I frantically called my husband. “She won’t stop crying!” I said. When my husband got home that evening,...
One of my favorite things to start the new year is the happiness jar. It is a great exercise for children to practice daily gratitude. Here is how it works: Everyone grabs a jar or a box and makes it their own. At the end of every day, you spend five minutes writing one good...
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