Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline.

Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on-demand.

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Our 50-plus classes give parents the foundation, steps, and tools for creating strong, healthy

relationships with their children, resulting in responsible, cooperative, happy, and successful

children and families.

My goal is to help parents support their children in finding and reaching their own unique

potential.

The podcast is a place to learn about all things parenting

and get your questions answered. I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer.

So it's times like this. I actually wish that the podcast could be more interactive because I'm

really wondering how everyone is doing out there. This definitely

is not easy. For you parents with toddlers and infants, I think it must be especially hard.

So my thoughts are really with all of you right now. And that's actually also why I started the

private Facebook chats on Sunday for the members. And we just had our first one this last Sunday. I thought it was

really fun and got some good member feedback. So I'll talk about that a little bit more at the end.

But just to kind of share with other parents what's happening right now and what we all might be

dealing with is, you know, it's definitely mentally taxing for sure.

You know, a few weeks ago, for me, three weeks ago, was easier because the kids were on, quote

unquote, spring break.

So at least the pressure of making sure we guide them through the schoolwork was completely off.

We still had some catch-up work from the prior week because we hadn't

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