What A Boy Needs From Mom
To respect our boys—to admire them, be proud of them, esteem them for who they are and how they think and what makes them unique and stunning and brave and wise—this is a need stemming from the deepest parts of their souls.
Course Correction
Daring to be vulnerable, daring to love and ask others to love us, these are not undertakings for the faint of heart. Do them anyway.
Tell the Children
Dispensing lessons to our kids about adult issues before they are mature enough to absorb them does not help them, it confuses them. It scares them.
This Day Was Hard
Right now my kids are still so connected to me, so pliable, so gut wrenchingly transparent and forthright. What happens when someday they meet a friend who suggests to them that what they have with me can be found somewhere else?
Building Reputations One Step at a Time
It’s the soul searching questions that make me long for a longer walking path, one that could take us hours past bedtime into discovery and intimacy a school week schedule rarely allows.
The Benefits of Study
Don’t be afraid to study your children. You are not parenting some generic children of a nameless generation, you are parenting your kids and must parent in response to their individuality.
Just So You Know
I am here to teach my kids they are beautiful, special, and unique, and yet their efforts in the world should aim not to claim that specialness and live in its glory, but to find it and draw it out in others.
Too Fast for Comfort
The things that keep our kids up at night are as poignant to them as the things that keep us up at night are to us. This was a moment to take seriously.
Rescue
My dress, loose in the water, floated around me and I felt simultaneously ethereal and grounded, other-worldly stuck to this spot in this pool in this moment for the rest of time. I couldn’t wait for the moment, the memory, to disappear and yet clung to it so I would never forget, never forget to hold him for the rest of my life.
Little Girl Growing Up
The changes in you lately are important ones, small and yet so huge the world turns on them. This is maturity. I see it in you.