Pandemic Parenting Calls for Self Compassion

Strategies to relieve stress, prevent burnout, and create serenity.

As we all went into quarantine in early 2020, I remember reading about people using the time at home for learning foreign languages and making their own sourdough starters. At a time when my own family and I were preoccupied with getting basics into the fridge, finding antiseptic wipes, and figuring out how long packages needed to be kept outside to mak…