ANNIE FRIDAY COACHING + CONSULTING

When mommy meltdowns hurt our kids…

It's important that we give our kids independence and offer support with discernment when they are experiencing life struggles.

Knowing your hot buttons as a parent or caregiver can help you navigate tough moments that test our patience and make the hairs on our neck stand up!

The conversations around screen use do not have to be fear-based or adult-led. By centering relationship, parents and caregivers will find these hard conversations come much more easily.

Who gets to decide what education is? Here Annie Friday, parent coach and teacher trainers, shares the Alliance for Self Directed Education's definition.

When our learning is hyper-controlled by others throughout our life, many of us must re-learn how to learn naturally without outside pressure and influence. The deschooling process that takes place is an important de-programming of someone else's standards.

There is an invasive and prevalent fear among society in general that if we don't teach, children won't learn. Time to move on.

I start this post with the disclaimer that I recognize there is no one-size-fits-all in education. I know that large class sizes, teacher...

Sifting through the structure of school and its impact on my family's world.

At some point it became clear that we had to stop living as if quarantine living was a temporary lifestyle. Masks, social distancing,...

Is learning through play real? Of course it is! This is the story of one playful moment of learning.

Maybe you figured this out weeks ago or maybe you haven’t yet (spoiler alert for you!), but I had an epiphany this week. There is no end....

Tantrums. Clinginess. Extra tears. Extra breakdowns. A constant need to be held. Yep, that’s me. Oh, and I suppose my kids have been...

So here we are, huh? We find ourselves in a place where none of us has ever been before. Our world is currently paralyzed, suspended in a...

I have been struggling to write lately. I have many half-written posts left unfinished. Part of it is time. Part of it is children. Part...

Getting outside with young children sounds easy enough, right? Here are a few points to considerations before you grab your walking stick...

People everywhere are panicking on how to homeschool their children. We have a nation of stressed-out, over-anxious, over-tested,...

Last week, I got to get away. Like away, away. To-the-tropics away. I went to Costa Rica. This was my first visit back to Costa Rica in...

I was recently interviewed about a non-profit group that I’m part of that focuses on the connections and camaraderie of motherhood – mom...

There’s an alarming trend in early childhood education that began in the early elementary years and is seeping down to the preschool...