Tag: parenting
Changing My Inner Dialogue- My Child is Good Inside
My child is good inside; I say to myself as I catch him screaming "holy s$%t" while going down the indoor water slide. *smiles...
Parenting: Like Learning To Ride A Bike
My four-year-old learned to ride her bike recently. At first, it was just her and me during the day. She woke up ready to...
Gentle Parenting, The Dark Side
These days we have women entering their soft life era, men and women on "healing journeys, and enter stage left, Gentle Parenting. Guidepost Montessori...
Thoughts On Turning Into My Mother
The other night I was lying in bed when a classic being-a-mom-induced insomnia came on with the symptom of one million thoughts a minute....
My Maternity Leave Binge Worthy TV Shows
I am a sucker for a good binge-worthy TV show. Just how people like to make you feel guilty for being a cat person,...
Learning To Listen: Having No Friends Is Sometimes A Good Thing
My heart cracked a little during bedtime snuggles when my second grader told me he didn’t have any friends. My heart raced, my stomach...
One Second Every Day For A Year
There are 86,400 seconds every day. As a parent, you cannot be present for each of them. One app, though, challenges you to record...
Enough: My 2023 Word of the Year
January is here, and with it, the impulse to draft goals and resolutions that will transform us more into the person we want to...
I Want To Be Fun Again
I'm usually not one for resolutions, but I have a singular focus for 2023: I want to be fun again.
I definitely used to be...
Saying Goodbye To Resolutions
It is currently 8:07 PM on New Year’s Eve.
In prior years I would have had a laundry list of New Year's resolutions. They typically...
Growing Your Family’s Financial Literacy In The New Year
Many of us reflect on goals and opportunities in the new year. Lose a little weight, read a few more books, find the perfect...
To The Real Heroes Of Youth Sports; The Coaches
Every Saturday lately has been a test in the mastery of the schedule. It’s had a few close calls, but no true crises were...
It’s Just Hair!
I’d recently watched Edward Scissorhands and suddenly had the movie seemingly come to life right before my eyes. My five-year-old had walked into my...
Breastfeeding Amidst A Formula Shortage
I gave birth to my first child in February 2020, two weeks before the world shut down. Even before being stuck at home with...