Social Media as a Parenting Resource with Hannah Lee

In today’s episode of “Helping Families be Happy” podcast, host Dr. Carla Marie Manly, a practicing Clinical Psychologist, Wellness Advocate, and Author based in Sonoma County, California talks with Hannah Lee, a Content Creator and an Instagram Marketer about the power of social media as a resource for parents. She also talks about how she helps other moms who work from home by marketing their small businesses.

 

Episode Highlights

• 02:15 - Hannah was isolated at home so she tried to join a local Facebook support group. However, she was kicked out of the group within two weeks because she mentioned a comment about ‘Sleep Training’ on a post made by an exhausted desperate mother.
• 03:45 – Hannah’s Instagram page is an intentionally created safe, positive community for stay-at-home moms.
• 06:45 – Dr. Carla states that it is so inspirational that instead of going and curling up in a dark hole, Hannah chose to be courageous, and started her way of connecting with people.
• 08:30 – Through the Instagram page and other groups they started sharing different ideas and tricks of creating support for the community and helping other moms in need.
• 10:40 – So many people who've been put in unexpected situations recently, like working moms, but are also watching their child at home.
• 13:20 – Dr. Carla asks about Hannah’s favorite content creation.
• 16:00 – Hannah does some marketing for the small businesses run by moms.
• 18:15 – To be able to review books for the publishing houses is a dream come true for Hannah as she has always been a book lover.
• 19:30 – Dr. Carla asks Hannah if she remembers her favorite book as a child if she had one.
• 21:40 – Hannah reminds parents that parenting was already hard and now we are pandemic parenting, and it's become even harder. 

 

Three Key Points

1. Hannah thinks that there's a need in the world for something to help mothers build community, and that’s how her Instagram page and the Content Creator in her were born. This page is called ‘Survival of The-Stay-At-Home-Mom’ because it was born out of this difficult struggle to find support.
2. In addition to the entire wonderful expert resources on Instagram, Hannah discovered many fabulous small businesses and handmade toys by small businesses. She is now connected with brand representatives for a handful of small businesses, toymakers, and small businesses run by moms, and they are now her friends.
3. Books and Sensory Play are a way to engage kids with the world in a safe way at home. You can travel the world in a book, you can provide kids with some slime, play dough, or rice bins that let them get their hands in there and touch everything.

 

Tweetable Quotes

• “I'm a former Teacher and Nanny but I had no idea what the transition to motherhood would be like.”– Hannah Lee
• “I found this app called ‘Peanut’, which is a dating app, but it's for mothers finding communities, which is cool.” - Hannah Lee
• “Do you stay awake at night thinking about what to create next?” - Dr. Carla Marie Manly
• “You are reaching 3000 formally isolated individuals who now have someone to turn to.” - Dr. Carla Marie Manly
• “I am finding so many inspirational people on Instagram, I am following Occupational Therapists, Parenting Specialists, and Nutritionists.” - Hannah Lee
• “They're engaged and are having a fabulous time and it’s simple and easy.” - Hannah Lee
• “So, I also have a very strong passion for Sensory Play.” - Hannah Lee
• “I am a book lover; I always used to sleep with mountains of books as a child.” - Hannah Lee
• “Books and Sensory Play has been therapy for our family.” - Hannah Lee
• “The community is such a lifesaving gift isn't it?” – Dr. Carla Marie Manly

 

Resources Mentioned

• Helping Families be Happy Podcast Apple
• Dr. Carla Marie Manly Website LinkedIn Twitter   Instagram
• Hannah Lee Instagram
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