Thais Freitas

Communications Strategy, Writing & Storytelling

Personal

The books I read in 2025

December 28, 2025 No Comments

I wrote a brutally honest list of the books I read in 2025, realized how many bad choices I made at bedtime, and somehow still walked away feeling okay about my reading year.

If you ask AI how to destroy a generation, don’t be shocked when it answers

December 1, 2025 No Comments

I tried the viral trend of asking ChatGPT how it would “destroy” the next generation, got a brutally honest answer, and somehow walked away with a weirdly hopeful take on what Gen Alpha actually needs.

2024: My year in review

December 11, 2024 2 Comments

2024 was an insanely busy year for me and my family, but we made it! In this year in review, I look back at all the changes in our lives and what we did to put everything back in order after the chaos of 2023.

Using food choices to shape my children’s minds and hearts

May 30, 2023 No Comments

Mindful eating goes far beyond satisfying our hunger with healthy foods. It’s a unique opportunity to teach our children important life lessons and how our food choices affect the world around us.

Rewilding the garden: My plan for spring 2023

April 2, 2023 1 Comment

Rewilding our backyard is my goal for spring and summer 2023. Here is how I’ll do it.

Five-year old boy picks leaves on the grass in a park

YouTube addiction: How I helped my children break out of screen-time zombie mode

March 17, 2023 6 Comments

What started as a quiet time to drink our morning coffee quickly turned into a YouTube addiction that led us straight to tantrum hell – so I ended it.

Mother with two little boys in a forest full of yellow leaves in Quebec

2022: My year in review

December 23, 2022 1 Comment

2022 was tough – I’ve never felt so exhausted! But a lot of good things happened, too – with this 2022 Year in Review, I look back at what I learned in the year that’s ending and list my goals for 2023.

Vintage drawing of a creepy boy eating canned beans

My son loves my food – oh, wait.

October 17, 2022 No Comments

It seems like every parent on LinkedIn is sharing life lessons their enlightened children are teaching them, so I decided this was a good time to share what my offspring have taught me so far.

One-year old boy lying on the floor looking at a book.

The five things my parents did to make me a reader and that I now do with my kids

May 11, 2022 No Comments

I’ve been an avid reader since I was 7 and I owe it to my parents. Today, reading and writing isn’t just a hobby but an essential part of my work, and I’m following my parents’ recipe for passing on the love of reading to my own children.

Observe and Interact: How I apply the first permaculture principle to raising my kids

April 25, 2022 1 Comment

We can apply the 12 permaculture principles to every aspect of life – I use them as a guide for my parenting. Here’s how I use the first principle, “Observe and Interact,” in raising my children.