Parenting editor Bethany Braun Silva interviews Slumberkins co-founders  Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen. Kelly, Callie, and Bethany discuss how to help kids navigate emotions and how parents can help kids through traumatic events happening in our world. Stay tuned for more episodes of The Breakdown with Bethany coming soon! ----------------------------------------- 📌 Join our email list for exclusive content, new videos, giveaways, and free nannies. (Okay, that part's a lie...): http://eepurl.com/SJxVj ⚡️Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MomCaveTV 👍 us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MomCaveTV 👉 Sub on YouTube http://goo.gl/QSV97m 🎯Pin with Us: http://www.pinterest.com/MomCaveTV 📸 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/momcavetv 🎬Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@momcavetv 🍸Our blog/giveaways: http://www.MomCaveTV.com 🖥 Our Amazon Fire App: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TBM8NSK/ Watch MomCave on 100 + Smart TV Platforms - just search Binge Networks! ----------------------------------------------- Transcript: Bethany Braun-Silva: Hi, and welcome back to another episode of The Breakdown with Bethany. My name is Bethany Braun-Silva, and today my guests are Callie Christensen and Kelly Oriard. They’re the co-founders and co-CEOs of Slumberkins, which is a children’s brand dedicated to helping parents support their children’s emotional learning. And while you might not see this episode for quite some time, today is May 25th, 2022 a day after 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in Uvalde, Texas. I’m going to be talking to Callie and Kelly about how we can help our children through times of trauma. I know this is just a minor speck in what I could possibly be doing to give back here, but I hope you enjoy the episode. I hope you take something away from it. And if you can please head over to Mom’s Demand Action or Everytown for Gun Safety to donate. Enough is enough. Bethany Braun-Silva: I really do appreciate you both being here with me. I have been a fan of this brand for quite some time, and actually we’ve met in person in New York City. And I know you had a lot of things cooking back then, so I can wait to get into it. But for people who don’t know, tell us what Slumberkins is all about. Callie Christensen: Yeah. Slumberkins is an emotional wellness brand for families that deliver therapeutic tools through the form of publishing and plush, and content, and try to just meet families where they are in their emotional development journey. And right now it shows up through our cute cuddly characters like Bigfoot that helps promote self-esteem, Yeti that promotes mindfulness. We have an alpaca for stress relief. All of the different characters are kind of mascots of these different emotional pillars. Bethany Braun-Silva: And what sort of like, how did you guys get started in this? Because it seems like so necessary. Right. But then what was, I guess my question really is what was the initial inspiration? And then what was the evolution like to the plushies and the books? Like, why did you choose that route?... Read the rest at: https://www.momcavetv.com/helping-a-kid-through-trauma-slumberkins/