✦ PARENTING TOGETHER ✦
Parenting is hard.
You don’t have to do it alone.
Real-life tools, stories, and support for families. Especially when mental health, disability, neurodivergence, or just plain life makes the usual parenting advice not quite fit.
START WHERE YOU ARE
Resources for Parents & Caregivers
Real-life tools for hard moments, communication, family routines, and figuring out what to try next.
✦ Parents & Caregivers
Simple tools for communication, hard moments, family routines, and figuring out what comes next.
More resource collections are coming soon.
Real families don’t live in textbooks.
Sometimes the advice sounds great until you’re standing in your kitchen with a kid who is overwhelmed, you’re overwhelmed, and nobody remembers what the parenting book said.
Parenting Together is about finding tools that work in real life. We can learn, repair, try again, and help our kids grow without pretending any family gets it right all the time.
HI, I’M TASHENA
Parenting Together comes from real life.
I’m a parent and Family Partner who believes families deserve support that feels human. This is a place for practical tools, honest stories, and ideas you can change to fit your own family.
I don’t believe in perfect parenting. I believe in learning, repairing, trying again, and doing it together.
LET’S TALK
Want some support?
Sometimes it helps to talk things through with someone who gets how messy real family life can be. You can check the costs first or go right to booking.
STORIES + REAL LIFE
Latest from Parenting Together
- Mixed Feelings a Parenting Perspective on CBAT IntakeToday, I dropped my 7-year-old off at a CBAT program.If you don’t know what CBAT is, it stands for Community-Based Acute Treatment.… Read more: Mixed Feelings a Parenting Perspective on CBAT Intake
- Supporting Your Child Through Body Shame While Building Healthy HabitsI want to talk about something that hits home for a lot of us, especially those of us who were told we… Read more: Supporting Your Child Through Body Shame While Building Healthy Habits
- Is My Child Ready to Walk Alone?Why It MattersWalking alone isn’t just about getting from one place to another—it’s a milestone.When a child walks through their neighborhood, they’re… Read more: Is My Child Ready to Walk Alone?
- Learning to Care for YouWithout Guilt, Shame, or a $300 Spa Day Taking time for yourself as a parent can feel impossible. And when you do… Read more: Learning to Care for You
- When There Are No Easy Answers: The Gaps in Protecting ChildrenPublished on April 21, 2025 Some days, it feels like we’re all just trying to patch holes in a sinking ship—with duct… Read more: When There Are No Easy Answers: The Gaps in Protecting Children
- We Were Meant to Be VillagesWe need to act like villagers I haven’t been able to write much lately. Not because I don’t have ideas, parenting tips,… Read more: We Were Meant to Be Villages
✦
You know your family best.
Take what helps. Leave what doesn’t. Change the tools so they fit your people. We’re figuring this out together.
