Mending Families is hosted by Melissa Pemberton and she brings you weekly content that is a mix of trauma aware interviews, parenting tips for those caring for kids from adversity, and stories from people just like you as they share their beautiful messy moments. Melissa hopes that when you listen each week, you will feel encouraged, inspired and take a little something away to help you and your family move from broken to mended.

On today’s episode, Autumn talks about how she went from being a teacher in the school system to being a stay at home mom to now being a published author. Autumn and her husband are also foster parents and we chat briefly about what they have learned during their time as family parents. This is a good one if you are looking for activities to do with your kids this summer! Enjoy!

Autumn is a mom to 3, teacher turned stay-at-home-mom turned author, who loves helping other moms thrive in their best version of themselves. Autumn and her husband have been happily married for just under 14 years. They are currently loving on a 1 month old foster daughter and enjoy being outside, traveling to new places, and making frequent trips to the library.

You can find Autumn on Instagram, Facebook and all of her resources can be found on her website, www.bestmomideas.com

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Topics Autumn mentions:

*The Connected Child and TBRI was the first parenting strategy that helped when they became foster parents

*Karyn Purvis’ YouTube videos can be really helpful to grasp the TBRI strategies

*Autumn wishes she would have known more about the connection strategies when she was a teacher. Check out more on this HERE

*Autumn has a gratitude journal that she has found helps her stay grounded. We talked about the book One Thousands Gifts by Ann Voskamp which is a good way to jumpstart your own gratitude journal!

*You can find all of Autumn’s books on her website, or on Amazon, Walmart or Target

*Autumn’s favorite books so far have been the 3 part series, Teach Your Child to Read

*Grab THIS FREEBIE from Autumn…The Ultimate Mom Saver Activity Bundle

*Raising Mentally Strong Kids by Dr. Daniel Amen is a book Autumn is loving right now

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