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.
Materialism--It's More Than Just a Season
If we are asking people to refrain from giving things because we already have a mountain of things in the playroom, isn’t it worth examining where all that original clutter—the stuff we ask our loved ones not to add to—came from?
The Impact of Environment
Environment is all around us, seeping into our bones and into our psyches. It is unique to each home, to each family, just like a fingerprint or a snowflake.
Parent Coaching for the Parent-To-Be
These young women are educated, capable, professionally successful and in strong relationships, and yet they wonder if they have what it takes to successfully raise children in today’s culture.
Always Worth Waking For
As much as moms often feel over-touched and over-crowded with little ones crawling and grabbing and needing so much physical attention, I’m pretty sure without all the touching and needing and pulling and leaning I might just wither a little bit.
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?
Recognizing Loss in Transition
How often in our lives do we spend needless energy berating ourselves for the feelings we have rather than accepting and moving through them, recognizing them as instructive and even necessary?
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.
When Sports Become a Metaphor, but Kids are Paying Real Dues
I think, sometimes, we are afraid to ask the “Why?” I think sometimes we fear the possibility of missing something and so we pile more on, assuming that no harm will come of it.
The Power of Perspective Shift
I don’t have to tell a parent what to do because when they begin to get in touch with their own sense of purpose, their behavior begins to align with that purpose automatically.