Early Care for Every Kid Danielle An

In this episode, Amanda Alappat, a homebirth mama, certified doula, coach, seasoned yoga teacher, joins me to discuss:
(04:30) how birthing is a pivotal experience that could color motherhood(06:50) the importance of knowing our options (07:40) considerations+support needed for optimal conditions preconception, during pregnancy, postpartum(19:20) Amanda's home birth story(28:00) physiologic birth (31:40) Amanda's surprising and empowering first home birth (38:00) RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) parenting(44:00) how we could help empower women by reclaiming birth, knowing all our options
and more.

Mentioned in this episode:
Amanda Alappat https://www.amandaalappat.com/Amanda Alappat https://www.instagram.com/amanda_alappat/RIE Parenting https://www.rie.org/about/ries-basic-principles/

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Danielle An
Wherever you are, however, your day or night's been going. I hope you feel as inspired as I am after this episode with Amanda Alappat, to take a moment, to see how we feel in our bodies and take charge of how we mother, our children and ourselves.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone. I'm your host, Danielle An each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone.

Amanda Alappat is on a mission to support and elevate women. She is a home birth mama seasoned yoga teacher and a veteran personal trainer who was once a competitive champion boxer. Amanda has two small children and an artist husband. She splits her time between New York city, their retreat, home and art gallery in the Poconos in Pennsylvania and Costa Rica.

The destination of their upcoming family retreats. Amanda believes strongly in both physiologic birth and mothering, and is the practitioner of RIE a respectful approach to parenting. She loves growing her own food. Unschooling her daughter breastfeeding her son, hosting women's circles and retreats all while cultivating sisterhood and community.

Welcome to our conversation with Amanda Alappat. I'm so grateful to have you today because you are on a mission. You are a woman, a force on a mission to support and elevate women and womanhood and motherhood, sisterhood, community rewilding. Could you please tell me how you came into this space of birthing and rewilding motherhood?

What does that mean?

Amanda Alappat
Okay, so I'll give you the summary. I got into the fitness industry 20 years ago, and that is before Instagram and before social media. And so I was one of the only women in the industry and as such, I...

Rev. Susan Nason, parent educator and founder of the Parent Whisperer NY, joins me to discuss:
(07:15) Why parents need to develop communication skills(10:20) How to establish trust and boundaries (13:50) Why it’s crucial to acknowledge feelings sooner than later (22:32) “Loved people love.”(30:00) Kids seeking attention or connection?(32:51) The most foundational (and often simple) thing parents could do to nurture kids’ sense of self-worth (role play) + what happens for us when we do that(34:35) How we might better connect with strangers  
and more.
Susan is a mother, grandmother, and educator helping parents create loving cycles and lasting connections with their children.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Parent Whisperer NY ​​http://theparentwhispererny.com/Contact Rev. Susan Nason rev.susannason@gmail.com“How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk” https://amzn.to/3mbxtcF “Siblings Without Rivalry” https://amzn.to/3mdFmOy5-min Loving Kindness Metta Meditation https://youtu.be/Y-z4HqdTQFw
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In this episode of early care for every kid, we discuss:
(00:50) How I reconciled not getting it all done sometimes(02:23) How you can feel good about giving yourself space/care(06:29) Questions to ask yourself when deciding what’s important now
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Danielle An (00:00)
In this episode, I want to talk about giving ourselves more space without the guilt to take care of ourselves first, especially because we are caregivers to very little children who are always watching. This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone.
I'm your host, Danielle An each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders. The care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone. Welcome to our conversation.
Danielle An (00:50)
Hi I was away last week and despite wanting to be disciplined and consistent about podcast episodes, I myself also just take the week without giving any advance notice. I felt a little guilty and frustrated and frankly was very cranky and myself to be skipping an episode. But I do want to talk about how I've come to feel okay about it all 
After taking an unplanned last minute road trip to visit my in-laws for the first time since the pandemic, I wasn't quite sure I was going to be able to record and release this episode or any episode, but I take a moment to think about is that really important right now for me this week, especially cause I wasn't feeling very well. I decided that it's okay. Let's skip a week and come back the week after. So here we are. 
And it just reminded me to maybe encourage you to give ourselves, give yourself some more space. Without guilt to intentionally take care of ourselves first and recharge as needed. So that would, we could be at a healthier, more regulated space where we are feeling generous and happy to share what we do and do it with joy and gladness.
So when we are with our kids, we're not erupting at them. Something really minute. 
Danielle An (02:23)
I want to talk about the mindset shift as I decided, okay, this week I will skip an episode because it might demonstrate a little bit about what a lot of caregivers, a lot of mothers do, especially when it comes to personal work and family lives.
We set ourselves up for failure a lot of times, because there are too many things that need to get done that don't. Fit on our plate neatly. And we are not meant to do all the things on our own without any support, even before the coronavirus and during a pandemic. And. As we are perhaps slowly getting to a safer place and still a tenuous place where there's still a lot of uncertainty.
There's a lot of clarity how we are not individually meant to do it all alone, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and all the stacks, all the nursing or pumping and the bottle washing and feeding or a sanitizing that needs to happen. And just keeping the house. Clean enough or making a...

Precious Hallman, educator, mother, and author based in Memphis, TN, joins me to discuss:
(02:06) path to becoming an educator(08:30) ongoing support and structure teachers need to be effective and stay motivated(14:55) teaching and parenting during the pandemic(17:30) tips for getting parents and kids engaged and invested in learning(21:40) what makes a great teacher/mentor?(31:25) measuring a child's growth/learning + pros/cons of testing(39:13) tips for recharging as a busy working parent(40:40) resource for parents and children during and beyond the pandemic
and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Precious Hallman http://preciousmorganhallman.com/Parents • Children • Home: Creating A Supportive Learning Environment During A Pandemic & Beyond https://earlycareforeverykid.captivate.fm/preciousbookStillman College https://stillman.edu/
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Precious Hallman is an educator author mother, and advocate for equity for all children. She currently teaches fourth grade science in Memphis, Tennessee, where she resides with her husband and their two sons. Recently, she published her first book, Parents, Children, Home, Creating a Supportive Learning Environment During a Pandemic and Beyond. As many parents with young children who cannot get vaccinated just yet, have anxiety over the upcoming school year and perhaps anxiety over the past school year. I hope this episode and her book can be a helpful resource and some comfort for you. We discuss her path and training to becoming an educator and her experiences as a teacher and a mother during the pandemic.
We also talk about specific things teachers can do to get ongoing support and professional development, to build trust, communication, and accountability for themselves had students and families and how we, the public might recognize and value the work educators do every day.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone. I'm your host, Danielle An. Each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders. Who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone.
Welcome to our conversation with Precious Hallman.
Welcome Precious. You have a passion for it, children and all people. And you've been an educator for 17 years. How did you come to seek out or fall into education as a career?
Well, originally, as I mentioned before, I was a biology major. I always had a passion about science and animals and everything that involves science.
And it was a huge conflict with being a college athlete and traveling so much for my first two years of undergrad, my freshman year. Sophomore year that's when I realized, okay, this is not going to work with having labs...

Michael Deutch, basketball coach and founder of Hands On Hoops, a youth basketball program, joins me to discuss:
(02:12) what is the Hands On Hoops program?(03:17) on learning to be part of a team, a community (05:07) transferrable skills from basketball to real life(08:04) using his platform to help the community(16:32) how traditional gender roles harm men also(18:23) on transitioning to more personally fulfilling work(25:30) the power of "word of mom" (27:39) the magic words
and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Hands On Hoops https://handsonhoops.com/ | handsonhoopsnyc@gmail.com Coach John Wooden https://coachwooden.com/Coalition for the Homeless https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/
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What could we learn from the game of basketball? Today, I'm joined by Michael Deutsch, founder of Hands On Hoops, a basketball program based in New York City. Besides being a coach. Michael is a father, an entrepreneur, and an active community leader. We talk about his path and inspiration for creating a basketball program for our kids.
The transferable skills that young children and families take away. And how he shows up as a leader and role model, not only for his daughters, but for so many in our company.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone.
I'm your host, Danielle An. Each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders. Who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone. Here's my conversation with Coach Mike today.

Coach Mike, Michael Deutsch founder of Hands On Hoops based in New York City. I am so glad to be talking to you today, coach, because you really do embody what a true coach and role model would look like and you teach what's really important in instilling in our kids. So welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Danielle.

Really nice to be here.

I'm so excited. I just want to share that I first came across you through our local New York City, Facebook parenting group review. One of the moms who would normally not leave any reviews, had raving reviews about you and how you were engaging with the children and how you came and made it so easy.

So Hands On Hoops is for children between the ages of two to six. Is.

Well, actually the program is for kids between ages two through 17.

Okay. Please tell me about Hands On Hoops.

Sure. Hands On Hoops is a kids program. It's a basketball and transferable skills program where kids learn to share the basketball.

Be a great teammate. Build a positive attitude, listen to...

In this episode of early care for every kid, we discuss:
(01:30) what is the expanded/advance child tax credit(02:40) how to claim the child tax credit (even if non-filer)(03:01) how much will your family receive when(04:18) who is eligible to receive the child tax credit(05:06) how to claim the child tax credit (even if $0 income)(07:00) when and how much(07:42) why you might want to unenroll from the monthly payments(08:43) immediate benefits of the child tax credits for businesses and families(10:34) to be sure, naysayers may say...(11:34) what I say(13:14) benefits vs costs of the child tax credit(15:00) how to make this a permanent fixture(15:42) how to be a good neighbor
Mentioned in this episode:
Advance Child Tax Credit Payments in 2021 (Manage Payments | Non-Filers | Check Eligibility) https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/advance-child-tax-credit-payments-in-2021American Rescue Plan https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/Research from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/house-covid-relief-bill-includes-critical-expansions-of-child-tax-credit-and
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Danielle An
(00:00)
If you're a parent like me, you may have received an actual hard copy letter in the mail recently about the Advanced Child Tax Credit payments that will begin this week. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm excited to talk about updates from the IRS. The Advanced Child Tax credit and the payment schedule, what it is, who's eligible, and how much you can expect to receive.
It's all coming up in this episode of early care for every kid.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone. I'm your host, Danielle An. Each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone. Welcome to our conversation.
(01:30)
Beginning this week, the IRS will start making Advanced Child Tax Credit payments to eligible households in monthly payments. I'll go over what the advanced child tax credit is, who is eligible to receive this payment, what you have to do to claim this, when and how you can expect to receive how much, and finally, some thoughts on this.
(02:40)
1. First, what is the advanced child tax credit? Generally a child tax credit is a credit allowed for a percentage of work-related expenses to care for dependents a taxpayer would incur to work or to look for work, like childcare costs, before or after school care costs.
Typically tax credit is available only when you file your taxes. But this year 2021, the IRS is making early monthly payments, hence the name advance child tax credit, starting this Thursday, July 15th. Under...