Miramichi Childrens Hub
St Mary’s Church - Newcastle Boulevard Newcastle, NB, Canada

Good morning, Kathleen’s family is under the weather this morning so we will not be holding playgroup today. See you next week!! :)

"Right until age 8, there's really no difference [between girls and boys] in confidence levels," says author Claire Shipman. "We were surprised at how quickly, ...how deep that drop is." A study by Shipman and Katty Kay, the co-authors of the best-selling book "The Confidence Code," found that girls' confidence drops by 30% between the ages of 8 and 14. In our interview, they discuss their research on girls and confidence and share advice on how parents can help counter this trend and help their Mighty Girls stay confident into their tween and teen years and beyond. To read more, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=27408 Kay and Shipman are the authors of two excellent books for tween girls, ages 8 and up -- the bestselling "The Confidence Code for Girls" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-confidence-code-for-girls) and the new companion journal "The Confidence Code for Girls Journal" (https://www.amightygirl.com/confidence-code-for-girls-journ) To learn more about their original book for adult women, "The Confidence Code," visit https://amzn.to/2H5KsVW For more confidence-building books to help Mighty Girls of all ages discover her inner strength, visit our "Self-Confidence" book section at http://amgrl.co/2qxXQhH For more advice and resources about raising Mighty Girls, you can sign up for our free weekly email newsletter at https://www.amightygirl.com/forms/newsletter

Do you feel you had realistic expectations for your baby’s sleep? Our expectations inform and often shape our experience. If we have realistic expectations we’r...e better prepared. Rebecca Michi has been saying this for ages. The first stage of helping parents with their babies sleep is to help them understand what is realistic in infant sleep. So often we project on our little ones our own sleep pattern needs and don’t understand what’s normal for them. See more