Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there and welcome another episode of the AT parenting survival

podcast. I feel like I haven't talked to you in a while. It's like we're friends.

I took a nice break over the Christmas holidays. I don't normally do that and I hope

that you enjoyed some of the replays that I put up in the last two weeks. Those were

some of the most requested and popular downloads of our

episodes. So if you haven't checked those out you can check out the last two weeks and I

hope that your kids are getting back to school okay for those of you that had that

had a break and your kids are going back, which is the most of us.

Today was the first day back for my kids.

And I'm not quite done with today. I haven't picked them up

from school yet. That's in another hour and a half, but it didn't go so well in

the morning.

So I'm hoping it went better at your house.

It started last night with Miss 8 crying and saying,

she like had an epiphany close to bedtime

that, wait a minute, tomorrow's Monday Monday I have to go back to school he was like this just complete awareness even though I have been telling her that school is coming and trying to prepare her and both two out of my three kids did not sleep at all last night.

And so Miss 8 year old was up from 10 p.m. on and did not sleep and I forgot to lock her iPad which I normally do or I do if I feel

it will be an issue I just lock it on her sleep up and I didn't do that and so she was up the entire

night and then Mr. Ten said that he was up most of the night as well off and on and

they have like a jack-and- Jill bedroom so you know they share a bathroom that connects their rooms and so normally if one of them is up so is the other.

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