Join us this week as we welcome Pediatrician and Holistic Health Coach Dr. Varisa Perlman, MD to the Podcast to discuss LaPetite Cream and the results that led her to collaborate with the French founders because the results were so unbelievable. While we initially met them at PreggoExpo New York, we quickly fell in love with the results of just trying for our hands, let alone a baby’s bottom & we are blessed to bring the education to the US and around the world and share how you too can say goodbye to diaper rash on baby forever!
About our Guest: Dr Varisa Perlman is a pediatrician of 25 years who is also trained as a health coach and postpartum doula. She has practiced in Michigan and Miami and is currently in NYC. Dr Perlman believes that caring for children requires empowering parents. Happy parents make healthy children.
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Episode Highlights:
- How to treat severe diaper rash
- How to get rid of diaper rash
- Using LaPetite Cream remedies a baby’s rash on the body
- What the French do that’s different to prevent severe diaper rash
- How LaPetite cream is made & why it works
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So let’s sleep together. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week’s episode of Kids Sleep Show podcast. I am joined today by doctor Varisa Perlman, and she is coming to us from La Petite Creme. And we’re gonna talk all about the most amazing diapering lotions and creams, what they are, and why you need to know all about them today.
So welcome to the show, doctor Perlman. I appreciate you being here today. Thank you for having me. I’m excited to be here. So tell us a little bit about your evolution.
I know, you know, you’ve got a great background from both Michigan to Miami and then in that postpartum space. Talk about how you got started, with Le Petit Creme and some of your background as a pediatrician. Sure. So I am a pediatrician about twenty five years. I actually come from two pediatricians from Thailand, who did their residency at Children’s Hospital in Detroit.
And so I actually did my training, both at University of Michigan and Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York. And then we moved back to work with, my mom and her private practice, for about, ten years in, Michigan and then moved to Miami Beach, for about twelve years. And that is where I met, Cecile and Fanny, who are the founders for La Petite Creme. Miami Beach is a wonderfully fluid place with people from all over the world, but especially from Europe. And, I got to know, many ways how to say open your mouth, you know, in Italian and French, you know, and a lot of different languages.
But, you know, the part that was so neat for me was being able to do a little of this, kind of anthropo anthropologic, tourism, being able to see how different cultures, you know, work with their children, and that was really neat. So Cecile and Fanny, were both patients of mine in the integrated practice that I was in in, Miami Beach. And I’m a very nosy person, so if something’s working for you, I need to know why. And so what I was noticing is that, it’s very hot in Miami. And so having diaper rash is really common because the diapers, really kinda hold on to the the urine, the stool, but also, like, the sweat holds against the skin.
So I would find many kids would have a lot of diaper rash who would have to go through that. And I started noticing, you know, with some of my French patients that whenever I would open up the diaper, the skin was very not even just intact, but it wasn’t red. It wasn’t blotchy. It kinda glowed, honestly. And I was like so I literally asked both of them actually on separate occasions, but not realizing that they were working together that why does the skin glow.
And it turns out that in French tradition, when you are in the hospital, they teach you how to wipe the baby’s bottom, you know, maybe some water, but mostly with a cloth and some of what they call. And it’s basically a combination of olive oil, beeswax. Theirs also has vitamin e, water, some glycerin, some limestone. But something to kind of disinfect, something to moisturize the skin, and something to use as a barrier. And just overall anti inflammatory.
So they take this, and it’s a two for one. So, basically, they wipe with it. So they wipe off. And because of the the kind of slippery nature, it actually wipes stuff off just as you would be using anything. And it actually doesn’t it’s not abrasive.
Right? So a lot of times, babies don’t really want you touching that area, especially if it’s raw. And so I love the fact that it kind of, like, just it kinda glides on, you know, and you can use it for that. And so they would use that. They would wipe with it, and then they would be done.
They wouldn’t put an extra, like, zinc oxide, or they wanna put an extra petroleum jelly, which are both kind of thick and kinda strange, honestly. And they would actually just close the diaper, and there you had, like, a barrier then. So the barrier would be to protect any kind of future exposures, especially in an area that I would call a high traffic area. Yeah. And I think it’s, to your point, interesting because, like, as someone who’s out of the diaper phase now with my two kids, but Yeah.
I mean, it was like you did the layer of the ointment to help kinda heal, if you will, the diaper rash. Right? Especially my kids were in daycare, so by the time they got home, it was, like, red and irritated. Right? Sometimes bloody.
And there’s a lot going on down there from a cleanliness standpoint. Right? And I’d have to, like, lather on the the dip dip I mean, you know, I don’t wanna call any brands out, but, like, I’d have to lather on the ointment type product and then lather on the zinc oxide to create that barrier. And it’s like, ew. I mean, I can’t you know, no baby wants to fit in a pile of, you know, feces or pee.
So the fact that they would have to, like, sit in that to protect the bottom, I was like, this cannot feel good to a baby, but it’s, like, the best, you know, the best 11 ago that I had. And, you know, I I just love this product for that purpose because I think to your point, one, it keeps it clean. Right? Like, you know, explain to parents what causes diaper rash because I think people don’t necessarily understand and how it also gets worse. Yeah.
So that is a your your greatest immune organ in your body is actually your skin. You know, we don’t think about it, but your skin is an incredible barrier in itself. Right? And what people don’t realize is that a break in the skin is literally an entryway for any kind of bacteria that is literally hanging out with you. It doesn’t I don’t wanna gross people out, but, literally, you’re covered in bacteria and viruses.
I mean, there’s just a lot of stuff that kinda is on your skin. But you break that skin, and all of a sudden that barrier is is gone. And so the diaper rash is your body trying to fight. Whatever it’s sensing is starting to invade it. Right?
So that redness, again, is part of the inflammatory response. But sometimes that inflammatory response makes the skin even more irritated, right, and thinner. And, again, you break the barrier, now you’ve got a bacterial infection. So I would often see some redness, but if it wasn’t addressed and kind of taken care of, whether it be by airing it out or using they have a balm that’s a little bit thicker that can kinda bring down the redness and irritation. All of a sudden, now I’m having to pull out my antibiotic ointment.
All of a sudden, I’m having to pull out my antifungal. All of a sudden, I’m pulling out my steroid. I don’t want to use those medications. You know, in medicine, we just have such a reliance on the pharmaceutical space, and there are these beautiful kind of, I would say, like, potions, but there’s these beautiful, like, creations that Linna Ma has traditionally made in the kitchen. You know, these are things that, you know, the food is the original medicine.
And so, you know, when we kind of threw out the baby with the bathwater in order to embrace modern day pharmacologics, we really lost a whole well of information that, you know, I think is part of my attraction towards other cultures because I just feel like other cultures still want to embrace traditional function. And so this is a recipe that is, you know in, you know, France, there’s a lot of different brands of L’Enomant. Like, it’s just kinda pretty common there. But in The US, there really wasn’t anyone making that product. And I don’t think they even realized it until I was like, what is this?
Like, why what are you using? And, you know, I, over the years of, like, twenty five years, found myself going simpler and simpler and simpler. And I just felt like we have almost we have too much information. We have too much noise. We have too many thoughts, too many recommendations, too many medications, too many ways to cut something.
And if I could get something that holds everything together you know, we were just talking before this idea of using it on various points of inflammation. Right? So, any kind of redness, any, like, folds you know, when you sweat into a fold, babies, like, you know, it gets so irritated, you know, for, you know, bites, any kind of abrasions. You know, it’s a nice way to kind of, like, clean, but at the same time, like, protect the area, for women postpartum. Because along with being a a pediatrician, holistic pediatrician, I also did a postpartum doula training.
And, I mean, that area postpartum is not a gray area. It really gets so irritated, and just the thought of touching it is is kind of a nightmare. And and I really found that to be this this is a great product for women and for babies, you know, altogether. Well, and I’ll even say, like, you know, using it as you grow. Right?
Because I think people in this country have a a twofold. Right? To your point on just grab the quickest medication or something that, you know, might be full of ingredients that you can’t necessarily even understand, but they fix the issue. Right? I think as a society, we were becoming more aware that what we put in our skin is absorbed into our body.
Right? So I think people are starting to become more socially aware of the toxicity in certain products or maybe not the best effects. Right? And you’re putting it on the youngest of skins, you know, that’s fresh as they can be. Right?
So I think there’s an aspect of, you know, the cleanliness of the ingredients and the ability to read things that, you know, you’re putting on especially to a baby, but also the fact that it can grow with you. You know, we’re on the beach and, you know, my son has chafing a little bit from, like, the sand or the mesh netting, which I now cut out of their bathing suits and stuff. And it’s like this product, you can put it on. It creates that barrier. It helps to manage the inflammation of any of that, like, chafing rash and stuff.
I mean so I think a product like this, parents, you look at it like, oh, this is a diapering lotion or this is a, you know, diaper rash cream. And it’s like, well, yes. But I have really dry cuticles. And when you guys had first sent me the sample, I was like, this is lovely. You know?
We actually joke because we met you at the Prego Expo in New York City. And Erin, who’s on my team, has, like, alligator skin as we were kinda calling it. Right? And she’s like, you gotta meet these people. This is amazing.
You know? So it’s like, you know, I think for us here at Tiny Transitions, it’s like when you find products that work for the purpose that they’re designed for but then have supplemental benefits, it’s just a bonus. You know? Yeah. And I do think that, again, just trying to do less is more simpler products, knowing what’s around you, knowing that what you do have around you is, you know, whole ingredients that you can you know, they are organic and have been used for a very long time.
It it was very troubling to hear about, the recall of some white brands because they had forever chemicals in them. And the fact that parents are using this over and over and over again on skin, of a newborn. But, like, you know, it’s you know, there are wipes for all kinds of different things, you know, but why can’t we use something like this for all different reasons as well? Well and I think to your point, it fixes the issue with the inflammation in an a more natural way. Right?
So you’ve got this, like, you know, kind of I don’t wanna say, like, medicinal purpose, but, like, it can both treat the diaper rash and heal and protect in a barrier in, like, one simple product. And I think it’s a for us here in The States, it’s just a different process. Right? Like, we’re used to just wiping partially and then sometimes with a cold wipe Yeah. That then seals in all the junk and bacteria into the pores, which then creates the diaper rash.
Right? Like, you Yeah. When you actually realize what you’re doing with it, it’s like, oh, okay. Wait a minute. This product can both kinda clean and create that barrier, which I think is important.
Because like I said, I mean, I used to slather on, like, both with, like, a I mean, just the like, a yeah. Like, one of those tongue depressors that you guys have. You know, it’s like I would slather it on, and then you slather this one on. And it’s like, you shouldn’t be slathering anything. And I’ll say this is such a smooth application.
You know? And it’s it is it is funny because I do keep one of them in my purse at home for just, you know, my my dress. Skin. And down here at the beach where we are, this week when we’re recording this, there are these things called greenheads, and they are the most intrusive, agitating, biting flies, and they whack you. And they live in the marshlands, like, a couple miles north of Long Beach Island, which is where we are.
And they will just but the the the lotion helps in the soothing aspect of it, which I think is cool. Yeah. I think that’s very cool. I wanna talk a little bit about because I was excited to see that La Petite Creme is at Whole Foods. So talk a little bit about just the product evolution.
Right? It it sort of started very small and is now rapidly growing and expanding, which is exciting. So, yeah, it start started pretty much with Cecile and Fannie making it in their kitchen for five years. I mean, you know, talk about commitment that, you know, it just was a family made product. And then they were able to buy you know, they were able to use a warehouse space in Miami, to actually, again, produce it on a larger level.
But still, it was just the two of them and then someone helping part time. And it really has been like that for, you know, ten years, twelve years now. There is growth now, especially seeing kind of the Whole Foods, experience and seeing the product really open and grow. And it’s interesting because as Cecile has walked forward with this, the idea of finding, women particularly that, that are at an interesting at different points of their lives where they are one thing that’s very important to Cecile is that the people who come to work with us, like, understand why we’re there. We’re not just there to sell a product.
We’re there to kind of open up a point of view. And I it’s so important to to Cecile and to this company that it that people are exposed to, perhaps another way of looking at ways to be with their children. Yeah. And I love that. Yeah.
It it’s just so much more, and I think that it just couldn’t be any other way. Like, you know, I think that it’s it just isn’t within Cecile’s DNA to, like, to do something just to do a hard sell. You know? She really wants people to know that, like, we talk about less is more because, so many things have become so complicated that people as parents and just people in general are finding it so hard to be present with their children. There’s just so much noise.
And, you know, we’ve done some podcast. We’ve done some social media. We’ve done talks. The idea is that we wanna keep pushing this idea of a simpler life with children. Yeah.
Because, children and as a pediatrician, you know, my work now as a health coach, I I can’t tell you how much time I spend giving people permission to unscheduled their life. Yeah. He was talking how hectic everything is. And so, you know, when you walk into a space like Lac du Creme, it isn’t just about look at the lotion, put it on your skin. You know?
It’s that idea that, hey. There is an option, and there are a lot of other options to kinda streamline your life so that the time that you would have spent looking at the 10 different products or buying the 10 different products that are out there, you know, you’re saying, I’ve got this thing. Now I could turn away, and now I can hang out with my kid who’s just looking at some blocks. Like, let me let me put the focus where I need to put the focus, as opposed to where society is telling me to put the focus. I think some of the important learning going on.
You know? Yeah. It’s it’s like we just we’re still watch it. They see it. You know what I mean?
So it’s like I like, when I’m on vacation outside of recording this podcast, I have I don’t even know where my phone is. Like, it’s dead half the time because I don’t care. Like, I’m on vacation this week, and normally, I’d be, like, up and at them every day. And I’m like, you know what? I need a week to myself as well.
Owning your own business is hard because you’re always on. Like, I don’t ever get to take a vacation. I haven’t had a day off in ten years because my clients are always in that in some aspect of their support journey with us. You know? So unless I stop taking a client for, like, a month before I go on vacation, I always have something to do, which is fine.
I mean, that’s what you’d sign up for as an an entrepreneur, but, it is okay to step away. And it’s like, you know what? We’re not curing cancer. I’m gonna, like, be present with my kids, and I’m gonna play bucketball, and we’re gonna go paddle boarding. And I think that simplicity, we do it sometimes, I think, doctor Perlman, to ourself, right, as parents and as a mom who’s, like, a type a obsessive workaholic, but also who, like, loves her kids and, you know, we we all do.
But you know what I’m saying? Like Yeah. I I prioritize my family now more, I think, than I did years ago because I’ve had medical challenges, because it’s been like, oh gosh. Like, you’re having major things go on, and I gotta reevaluate, you know, what my life looks like, and I want it to be that authentic, you know, parenting. And I think in a in a world of, like, over scheduled and over this, like, some of it I control.
You know? And it’s like, you know what? I am not available till next Tuesday, and that’s fine. And it it really takes a lot for me as, like, a type a workaholic to just step back and be like, this is no longer working for me. Yeah.
I love because lately, the word of has been, for me, permission. You know? And it’s not like I’m the wizard or wizard of Oz. Like, who the heck am I? But sometimes you just need to hear from someone else, anyone, that you have permission to take care of yourself and your family.
And, you know, even Cecile, like Cecile over the summer, the French, when they take their vacation, they’re not reachable. It’s not like a like a suggestion. They’re not reachable. And they, to me, are showing me what, being present looks like in a way that my husband is a lawyer. And literally, when we go on vacation, it takes him five days.
So, like, say it’s a seven day vacation, it takes him more than half of the vacation to stop checking his phone. It it it takes that long for him to untangle. And that is The US. That is us. Like, we did this.
Yeah. Oh, no. Absolutely. It’s, it’s it’s just fascinating to watch. I don’t know.
I think to your point, culturally, my husband’s the CFO of a commercial lumber company now. He used to work for eBay at the time, and he was the international controller. So all of his employees were either in Barcelona, I think, like, Hong Kong, and then in London. And he’s like, what do you mean you’re taking off the month of August? Like, I I don’t understand.
And then he’s like, wait a minute. You can’t get to the office because there’s no bus in August? They just shut the bus down. You know? And so for him, it was just like and then the one in London, like, I’m having twins, so I’m taking the whole year off.
He’s like, what are you talking about? You know? And, so it was kinda like culture shock for him, but he’s like, oh, okay. Like, this is manageable. Here’s how.
We just have to plan for it. You know? But as, like Right. A a a a mid forties man in America, he was like, what do you mean you’re taking a year off as an accountant, you know, for babies? Yeah.
My my husband is a, a labor and employment lawyer, and they have international clients. And he just he he just can’t help but chuckle when they’re they’re like, you know, yeah. You know, we’re gonna be really it’s gonna be we’re gonna be really mean. You know? We’re only gonna give them three weeks, you know, of this as opposed to, like and literally, like, they would get, like, one day, like, off for this.
Like, you you literally are giving them a lot of time. But, you know, in Europe, there’s just it’s a totally different viewpoint. And so it does it does cross over in the way that you know, as a pediatrician, I love watching, again, how other people raise their children. And and there might be parts that are similar to The US, but, I mean, one of the big after school activities, you know, when their kid get out of school is to bring them to the grocery store, like, to bring them to see the butcher, like, like, you know, to walk around town, to go into the park and, like, just play free play. You know?
And, you know, I’ve really watched with my own children too, who, again, are young adults. There’s just there was always this pressure to schedule. And I really kinda bucked away from that because for me and it just was a consequence of having two parents who work. There was a lot of time where my parents couldn’t bring me anywhere. They just kind of were like, we’re coming home for dinner.
Bye. Yeah. You know, like and I don’t know if it’s a generational thing. I don’t know what that was, but I spent a lot of time laying on a hill looking at the sky. Like, I I don’t have And I think there’s something about that being bored.
Like, go be bored. You know? Kids, I’m like, go outside and, like, watch for turtles or dig in the mud or go beat yourself up outside. You know? Yeah.
I think there is something to the fact that, like, we are just I’m like, I’m I’m not your friend. I’m your parent. Go be bored. Go color. Yes.
Go count your toes. Go pick blades of grass. Go find every pink flower that you can find and pull one of the stems off or something. You know what I mean? Like, just go be kids outside.
And I know that every, like, geographic location has the ability to do that, but I think there is an aspect of, like, letting our kids be bored that has sort of gone away in 2025 and hopefully is starting to see, I think, a little bit of a resurgence. You know? I mean, I love from a La Petite cream standpoint, one, the fact that it is usable in a variety of different regions of the country. You’ve got the super dry cold and then the super hot Miami where, you know, I’m totally digging, like, Christmas vacation, they’re off for two years or two weeks. I’m like, we need to go somewhere warm.
But Yeah. You know, just as a product, like, the evolution of watching it go authentically and grow into something like this, I think, is so so cool. And the fact that there is a focus on simplicity in the products. You know, I I see parents and they’re creating these epic registries, and I always joke. I’m like, I’m gonna create, like, a live shopping registry thing where I actually explain the need for the product and also the fact that this product is not necessary, you know?
Yeah. Because, like, when people come home with all this stuff, it’s almost like junk overload and you don’t know what you do. You don’t know what to do with it. You don’t know you don’t even use it half the time, and then it goes away. It’s wasteful to the environment.
It’s wasteful to your budget or the people buying it for you. It’s like no simplicity. Like, you need a clean Yeah. Organic, safe mattress. You need a crib.
Yes. You need some simplicity in the products and diapers that you’re using. You know what I mean? Like, having a baby can be a lot more simple than I think we make it as it relates to the products, you know, because people are always trying to play whatever they’re selling. I like to align with companies that I actually use, that I like, that I find value in the products.
And this is one of them where I was like, oh my gosh. And I was so excited to see it at Whole Foods. So I am super excited for the continued expansion of that. I know you’re not in everyone, but, you know, it’s nice to see it that the one I shop at was there and proudly displayed. And I do periodically check, like, how many are left, how many are there, you know, because it’s exciting.
Like, you’re cheering on a brand that you’re, like, excited about how it works, and it’s awesome. So it’s very cool. Yeah. And and we are gonna start doing demos there. I love meeting the people.
As you know, when you go to Prego expos, I love meeting the people and, like, putting the product on their hands and letting them feel like, wow. This is what your baby’s bottom feels like after you use this product. Yeah. Because when you do it on your hand, you see how how smooth it is, and it just doesn’t you know, I’ve had people we were in the wintertime. I think that that’s when we might and, I mean, the guys, I mean, did they ever put anything on their hands?
Like, I don’t I don’t know what happened. And I had a whole lesion of, like, dads who the parent the moms would bring them over and be like, could you put something on his hand? Because it is and it would be cracked and, like, raw. And I’m like, what what are we thinking? Like, what was the long game on this one?
One? You know? Yeah. And I would put it on, and I would be like, did that sting? And they’re like, that did not sting at all.
You know? Because they were afraid it was gonna sting. So, you know, it’s very neat to me to have, like, a a thought and idea. When I asked Cecilia and Fanny, like, why did you guys even do this? Like, who even does this?
Right? And they’re like, it has helped so many families in France. Like, why wouldn’t we bring it to The US to help people? Like, literally, it’s just it’s one of those simple things that, like, doulas in France, it’s, like, one of the first things that they teach the children. It’s one of the first thing they teach the parents.
And, you know, why you know, in in a time, again, where we’re just kind of overwhelmed with a lot of stuff and we just have too many forget even, like, too many products, but almost, like, too many opinions. Like, we’ve just got a lot going on between social media, and there’s a lot of, like, just a lot of voices in our head. Yeah. How for parents who wanna be more present, how do we just kind of thin the herd? This is what you need.
These are the essentials. And spend the rest of the time. It sounds kind of weird, but, like, going back to the board idea, spend the rest of your time, like, being work with your kid. Like, literally just staring at this being, rolling around. I remember how hard that was because I was also working while I had a young baby.
And I found I had a hard time just sitting with her. You know, I I couldn’t and so I would actually even time myself. I would put half an hour on my my phone and be like, okay. You have to sit here for half an hour, not think about any kind of, you know, laundry you had to do, any drawers you had to clean, any meals you had to prep. And it was a real meditative challenge for me to be present with my kid.
Yeah. So it is a skill set that I don’t wanna be lost. The same way that you’re saying, which you’re right, the skill set to be able to do free play and, like, literally discover. Both of my kids are in the arts, and both of their kind of things that they did are things that, like, had pieces of it founded from when they were young, and we just let them do whatever they wanted to do. Yep.
Absolutely. Kids. You know? It’s so so important. And I think I you know, for somebody listening to this.
Right? Like, I challenge you to just take five minutes of that and start small. You know? I think often we’re overwhelmed. Totally.
Like, I have to be present for an hour, and I got all this stuff to do. It’s like, no. Be present for five minutes. You know? I deal a lot with tired toddlers.
Right? And so parents will come to us, and they’re like, my toddler is struggling at bedtime. My toddler doesn’t sleep through the night. My toddler is waking up 65 times to come into bed with us. And I’m like, you drop them off at 07:30.
When they got home, like, I had a client. He was three years old. They picked him up at five or so at night. Right? So they were in daycare all day.
The second they picked the kid up, they put him in front of the iPad. Then they held the iPad during bath. They held the iPad for him during dinner. And then during bedtime, they watched YouTube to put the kids to sleep. And I’m like, you wonder why he’s so, one, overstimulated.
Two, the chocolate milk and gummy bears he was having as a bedtime snack were not helpful. And three, he misses you. You have spent no time playing with your child. And I understand that you’re interested in getting some own time to decompress for yourself, and I think that’s super important. But you have a three year old, you know?
And I have to have these harsh conversations sometimes, and parents don’t always wanna hear it. Believe me, even though they’re paying us a lot of money to help them, they’re doing that for a reason because it’s like they need somebody to be helpful in holding them accountable, but it’s just like, oh my gosh. Like, look at the picture that you just created with a three year old. Like, you know, you you gotta take a step back and think that maybe that three year old just wants to engage with you a little bit. And I’ll tell you within, like, about a week and a half of working together because initially, they were hesitant.
They’re like, we’ve already tried all this. I’m like, well, you’re obviously not doing it correctly. You know? You hired me for a reason to listen to what I’m telling you to do, and the kid was doing beautifully. And, you know, it was kinda cool to see because I think people come to us sometimes, like, a little bit apprehensive.
You know? And it was cool to see the transformation, but more importantly, the appreciation for the the silent time, you know, and that engagement. I there’s a phrase that comes up a lot in my coaching and and as a pediatrician as well. It’s, based on Chinese adage saying that the children are born the way they are to heal the family. Right?
So all these experiences that parents go through, there’s a healing space for it, not just for the children, but for themselves. Right? And what I find really interesting when I’ve had some of these conversations, you know, about sleep or about, you know, activities throughout the day, some parents will say, listen. You know? Like, they’ll they’ll sit in, and I’m like, why do you think that you’re like that?
You know? Why do you think that you constantly feel this need to give him something to, like, look at? Like, you you and some will say, you know, gosh. I go, what was what was it like growing up with your parents? And they’re like, yeah.
My parents never really hung out with us. Like, they just kind of, you know, left us, and they just really didn’t know how to hang out with us, which means that for this parent now or today, again, we’re just do everyone’s kinda doing this for the first time, whenever you’re going through it. We talk about that all the time. And but this parent, like, we I have no model. What does it mean to, like, be present with my family?
They actually are blank. It’s a blank slate. So in many ways, I feel like that kind of, their behavior and the way that they kind of, like, pull into an automatic mode of, like, I feel almost insecure about me being entertaining and even, like, the fact that you’re not supposed to be there to entertain your children. Right? Yeah.
I think being present with your children and entertaining your children is a completely different animal. Like, we’re talking about totally different beasts. And to be present with them means that there is some time where everyone’s just staring at a wall. That’s not a bad thing. That’s not a bad thing.
And, actually, that’s for me, you know, you are you you’re the sleep expert. But for me, the way I know if I’m reading something, right, if I’m reading a book or whatnot, the way I know that I can close the book and go to sleep is that what I’m reading doesn’t make sense. Does it make sense where my own thoughts have now displaced what’s on the paper? Yeah. So now it’s almost like my imagination is now pulling me into another movie.
Right? Pulling me. And now I know I’m ready to sleep. But if your brain is constantly being programmed to look at something constantly, you just don’t your brain doesn’t know how to fade into the creativity. Yeah.
Fade into the daydreaming. The daydreaming is telling that’s why they call it daydreaming. It’s like, literally, like, your brain is creatively, like, going into a different story. And be without that free play I mean, it’s kind of ridiculous when the American Academy of Pediatrics literally has to have a mandate. Please allow your children to play more.
Like, what the heck are we doing? You know? Yeah. And I I saw it a lot, and and I saw it living in suburbia a lot. I just saw it, like, you know, in our general culture.
We just feel like more is better. You know? The more things we expose our kids to and, boy, you know, we should have done this and but it really there there’s a there’s a limit to it. You know, there’s a limit as to, like, what they can absorb, and they’re just exhausted. I mean, you see, there’s consequences to being so overly exhausted.
Your body’s like, I just need time to, like, unwind. And, unfortunately, going to sleep is a hard time to unwind because you’re so wired up. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
So, I mean, I think it’s important that, like, I guess, takeaways from this is, like, give yourself grace. Right? We’re all doing our best. Right? Start with looking at what things can you simplify, and some of it is product simplification.
Clutter. Right? Clutter clutters the mind. So it’s like, start with that. And then I tell parents, I’m like, take one thing that you change every day.
We do awesomes in our house. Three awesomes, one not awesome. We either do them at dinner. If we don’t eat dinner that day because sports don’t align together, then we do it at bedtime where we’re all together and we do three awesomes, one not awesome, and every person has to go. And I think it also opens up communication channels, which has been really cool.
And it’s a simple exercise that takes maybe three minutes. So it’s like you don’t have to start by, like, sixty minutes of pre play. It’s like just start with a little bit of simplicity and change and and being aware, you know, which I think is is uber important. So I appreciate you sharing that insight, you know. And from a La Petite Creme standpoint, I know we talked about Whole Foods.
Where else can people find the products right now on the website, which we’ll absolutely put in the show notes and then, you know, across the major retailers. Yeah. So we are working on various, like, kind of registries, you know, like but in terms of, like, in person sales is at Whole Foods. But our website, obviously, on Amazon, are other ways to purchase. Right.
And then we are on some, other, like, kind of sites here and there that show up. I know, like, an I think it’s my registry shows up. And so we are trying to kind of I I’m actually doing a Pottery Barn pop up that I’ve done a couple of times because I think Pottery Barn really aligns in terms of what, work they do. And I I think that, you know, we are finding, like you said, there is a growing need or growing demand for organic products, for simple products, for a simple approach. So, you know, we’re hoping that people kind of catch on to that and leave themselves with more time to spend with their family.
I love it. Well, I appreciate you coming on today. We’ll definitely put all the links to social media and to the website and and Amazon as well into the show notes. And I thank you, doctor Prolin. I love this product, and I hope others will find you at a Prego Expo or just give it a try, and, you won’t be disappointed.
So I appreciate you coming on. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. One more thing before you go.
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