The Teacher Mama‘s Podcast | classroom teacher, daily routines, healthy habits, work life balance, meal planning, faith and family

Ready to throw in the towel here as we are so close to summer? Struggling to keep your classroom in learning and doing mode so you're not dealing with behaviors all day? Don't have much patience for your own kids when you get done with the school day? Let's take a look at a good old fashion Bible verse to see what God had to say about our lack of spirit in the mundane things we do everyday so we can kick your booty into a positive ...

Today’s podcast episode is all about what we can do as teacher mama’s when we feel like our future is uncertain and we feel a lack of control. Springtime brings (hopefully) a time when we find out our job assignments for the following school year. Most of us most likely hope we are staying in the same spot. But we also know that might not happen. 

I am in a season of uncertainty myself. I’m unsure what next school year will bring...

Today we are going to talk about the fighting and the yelling and the frustration that can ensue when you have taken all this time to implement a beautiful routine with your kids, and it’s still not working! Yes, you may have done everything right and it’s still turning into a fight before bed! Don’t fret! Don’t give up! Keep going, I promise it will all be worth it because we are going to share some things that may help this proce...

We all know calming activities before bed is helpful. But sometimes our kids just aren’t ready for bed when it is bedtime. And they might need some extra time doing something that helps calm their body and minds. 

Ashley and I have helped our kids find new calming activities over the years that match the season where the kids find themselves. There are so many options. And our kids each have those calming activities that without ...

So you’ve made your kids evening routines list and it’s amazing. It has all the things that your journaled about from episode #178 on there and they just haven’t quite been following it like you thought they would the last couple weeks. It’s time to pretty that thang up so today we are going to talk about 3 ways to make it more visually appealing to them and easier to follow so stick around!

Ashley and Roberta have both used vari...

Do you wake up already feeling exhausted? Do you use caffeine throughout the day to keep you going? To hopefully improve your focus and attention? Are you someone who can drink caffeine at 8 pm and still fall asleep? Or are you someone who can’t drink caffeine after noon, because you will lie wide awake at night? 

Our bodies may all metabolize caffeine differently and at a different rate, but one thing is true: caffeine affects o...

In this episode you will learn: 

• A bedtime routine isn't one-size-fits-all
• What our podcast hosts do for their bedtime rituals
• How a bedtime routine can evolve over time
• bedtime routines aren't just for kids

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Exercise helps you sleep. It gives us endorphins (the happy hormone) which also helps reduce stress.  This is often a big reason why you can't fall asleep at night. Exercise also helps increase the natural release of melatonin in our bodies which if you listened to previous episodes, you know, helps us fall asleep at night.

There is so much research out there on how 30 minutes of aerobic exercise helps with sleep quality but let's...

Many of us mama's get to the end of the day and flop into bed. But the things we do leading up to bed vary each and every day. The time we go to bed may be different each and every day. 

In this episode Ashley and Roberta talk about what is part of their own bedtime routines. The things on their routines help them to both sleep better AND set their mornings up for success. 

In this episode you will learn: 

• our bedtime routines ...

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Exhausted? How much sleep do you need and 5 things you don't even know could be affecting it

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Do you or kids struggle with falling or staying asleep? Our Monday episodes are going to start being dedicated to a couple of things you can do during the day and/or at night to help with your sleeping and bedtime routine. 

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Are you walking around like a zombie all day long? You feel like you sleep enough but then your body doesn’t tell you that throughout the day? You have a hard time making decisions or it takes you way too long to plan because you can’t think properly. You blow up at your kids when it’s not warranted or you're falling asleep at 1 in the afternoon...

Sick of waking up after hitting snooze? Try this self-love practice instead.

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I am really good at being late to school if I don’t plan ahead the night before…like really really good, add two kids to the mix and we could easily be 20 minutes late every day. But when I figure out that all I needed to do was look at my morning and take everything that was making me late and move it to my evening routine, it saved me so much time. 

So we are just going to do a little brain storm sesh here today for you and your ...

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