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5 Texts to Send Your Partner Every Day

December 18, 2015 By Erin Leyba Leave a Comment

5 Texts to Send Your Partner Every Day

Researchers found that using text messages to express affection enhances relationships and creates a stronger partner attachment. Sending a loving text was even more strongly related to relationship satisfaction than receiving one! Full article at the link … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Connected Couple Tagged With: emotional bank account, family life, marriage, technology, texting

Register for Down Time

March 12, 2015 By Erin Leyba Leave a Comment

Register for Down Time

  by Erin Leyba, LCSW, PhD When it’s the season for browsing camp brochures, choosing travel teams, signing up for dance class and Tae Kwon Do, registering for swimming lessons, and picking a piano teacher, family life can get crazy. If we don’t prioritize “down time," we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everyday Life With Little Ones Tagged With: attachment parenting, childhood, down time, family life, mindful parenting, positive parenting, postpartum, preschoolers, summer

8 Ways to Be Strategic About Toys

February 21, 2015 By Erin Leyba Leave a Comment

8 Ways to Be Strategic About Toys

  by Erin Leyba, LCSW, PhD Toys can be great ways to help kids learn, socialize, mimic the adult world, have fun, learn how to share, practice vocabulary and motor skills, and learn pre-academic skills. Here are 8 ways to sustain interest in toys and use them to overcome … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Strategies for Mindful Parenting Tagged With: family life, positive parenting, postpartum, preschoolers, stay at home mom, toddlers, toy storage, toys, working mom

An Awesome Christmas Present for Young Kids

December 9, 2014 By Erin Leyba 1 Comment

by Erin Leyba, LCSW, PhD Want to give children something truly special for the holidays? Let them help you with your Christmas tasks. I will never forget the Christmas when I took my four-year-old son on the Polar Express train ride, to visit Santa at his local hangout, to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Strategies for Mindful Parenting Tagged With: attachment parenting, chores, Christmas, family life, mindful parenting, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, positive parenting, postpartum

Balancing Novelty and Routine With Young Children

November 13, 2014 By Erin Leyba Leave a Comment

  by Erin Leyba, LCSW, PhD The right balance of novelty and routine can help us feel peaceful, content, and joyful. If we have too much novelty all at once, we can get overwhelmed, stressed out, or exhausted. We feel depleted by processing and adapting to so much of the new. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bonding Tagged With: attachment parenting, child development, family life, joyful parenting, motherhood, novelty, parenting, pregnancy

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I am a mom to 3 spirited children, and work as an individual and marriage counselor in Chicago’s western suburbs (Oak Brook, IL). I specialize in working with parents of babies and young children. I love what I do and learn from every person I meet.

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