Meet Lori Korthals who’s a young mother of three who describes herself as a mom of three including a child with autism, is in her doctoral program, and she works in brain development where her passion centers around human development and child and family relationships. She teaches Zumba a little on the side and simply has a love for life. Lori works in the extension program in Iowa and serves her community in child development with varied focus. You’ll be fascinated as we talk about the perspective of brain development. Did you know that the brain doesn’t stop growing until we are 25 years old? We discuss new moms and advice to talk to their baby and communicating through touching your baby and settle down with all of the gadgets—focus on the simple.Lori shares her own personal story of her path with her autistic daughter and how she navigated brain development and temperament that they have with her and celebrating the differences. The how’s and whys that we parents parent each of our children differently matters.In this podcast you’ll hear Lori describe how she balances not just her career, but how she balanced her knowledge in childhood development and needing to navigate. Lori realizes how much her professional knowledge helped her and that spurs her to share with others.In this episode Lori talks of how she armored up to protect the whole family. We are all different and we all have special needs and need help in various ways at various times. Many times Lori shares special needs as one’s temperament—her perspective is fascinating. Research on parenting can coexist in actively raising kids and you can infuse your own reality. There are many pieces that come into play. Her advice is that parent’s don’t need to beat themselves up if a research based best practices doesn’t work for them individually — then move on and work on your own experience.Want to know what the research says happened to families during the pandemic? Parents needed some solid foundation to parent on and that is what Lori shares. Try this — Stop, breath and talk creating a foundation depth. Do more than survive. Don’t wallow. Thrive.Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
