Parenting Late Bloomers in a Fast Forward World
We as a culture are addicted to accolades and none of us are immune. But I am more aware now of the reality that there is no rushing growing up.… There’s just no fast forwarding the slow churn of experience. Blooming takes time.
When Parenting Costs us Something
Listening means actively making room for whatever words she may offer. It means I prepare myself to hear the intent behind the words or the intent behind the silence.
Christmas Lessons
Kids growing up in families that establish traditions year after year feel more secure in their identities, more connected to their families and family history, and are more likely to develop character based on shared family values.
Why Don't People Want Their Kids?
We live in a tumultuous world during a tumultuous time and all around I see people swearing up and down that the solution is just one policy change or one legislative session away. But what if all our man made problems don’t have a man made solution?
Not the Hardest
Motherhood is a universal community of women who have all felt exquisite joy and excruciating pain on behalf of another. This is not the most hard; this is the most human.
Hard Is In The Moment
We all have our different versions of hard. I guess, then, what’s hard isn’t necessarily the things we face as parents, but the moments in which we face them.