Parenting Tip: Avoiding Labels
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Parenting Tip: Avoiding Labels

The problem with labeling your child with a character trait, which then they live up to, and it doesn't leave them the flexibility or the fluidity to experience these feelings.

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Parenting Tip: Separation Anxiety
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Parenting Tip: Separation Anxiety

We want to talk about separation anxiety, a perfectly developmentally normal stage that most babies go through starting around eight or nine months. This is the time when object permanence comes into play. They realize that when you aren't in their sight, you still exist in the world, but you're not with them anymore.

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Parenting Tip: Overstimulation
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Parenting Tip: Overstimulation

Babies can get overstimulated very easily. And because they can't speak, they can't tell us, “I don't want to look at that rattle anymore. Stop shaking it in my face.” So we need to know the other cues to look for and how to create a sense of calm when they are overstimulated.

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Parenting Tip: Fair Play
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Parenting Tip: Fair Play

Before the baby, everyone had their own responsibilities to keep the household running. Tasks got delegated here and there. It felt pretty even. And then for some reason when the baby is born, there's usually a huge discrepancy between who does what. One partner doing much more work than the other.

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Parenting Tip: Body autonomy
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Parenting Tip: Body autonomy

The idea is as they grow older, our babies will continue to really know that they have say what happens to their bodies. That they get to be in control of their own bodies. And that's what we want for them as adults.

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Parenting Tip: Making Repairs
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Parenting Tip: Making Repairs

We all make mistakes. We don't expect you to be perfect, no one is. But there is a 3 step process to making the perfect repair. And it's a way to show them and model taking responsibility for when you mess up.

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Parenting Tip: Understanding Matrescence
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Parenting Tip: Understanding Matrescence

Matrescence is a term that describes the physical, hormonal, and emotional process your body goes through when you become a parent. You’re going through a lot, so give yourself grace.

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Parenting Tip: Look for the glimmers
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Parenting Tip: Look for the glimmers

Parenting is full of triggers, those annoying behaviors that just drive you crazy in the moment. But there are also glimmers in parenting, those moments of beauty and pure happiness. We encourage you to look out for and appreciate the glimmers.

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Parenting Tip: Instituting Special Time
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Parenting Tip: Instituting Special Time

Special time is the most important tool you'll have in your parenting tool belt. It is a focused, uninterrupted amount of time that you actually set the timer for with your toddler or your child.

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Parenting Tip: Teaching Sign Language
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Parenting Tip: Teaching Sign Language

There are many benefits to teaching your baby sign language. It really cuts down on temper tantrums because babies can communicate with their caregivers a full year before they would learn to talk.

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Parenting Tip: Airplane Travel
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Parenting Tip: Airplane Travel

Here are a few travel tips when flying with your baby, from how to prevent germs, making sure your baby’s ears adjust to the pressure, and getting that coveted bassinet for international flights.

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Parenting Tip: Butterfly Tapping
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Parenting Tip: Butterfly Tapping

As a new parent, you can often feel worried, anxious, overwhelmed. So butterfly tapping is a quick and easy way to help bring equilibrium to your system.

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Meet the people & philosophy behind The People Place LA!
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Meet the people & philosophy behind The People Place LA!

We wanted to introduce you to who we are, what the People Place philosophy is - if you could sum it up with one term, it would be conscientious parenting. Really think about how you were raised and what are the things you'd like to move forward with.

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