Most parents struggle at times with encouraging respectful communication in kids. At times I’ve assigned sentences about respect as a consequence for rudeness and fighting. But I’ve not been sure it does anything but aggravate a kid more. Recently I came up with a way to modify the writing assignment...
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5 year old comes to me, wailing, limping.  She sits down before me with brimming eyes, holding out a leg to me. Same leg she cried over two days ago, hurting then with something mysterious, unseeable to my eye or my inquiring fingertips. Today again, same leg offered.  “It hurts from here up to...
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My husband and I joked when our first daughter was little that she was always a few months ahead of us. We’d buy her a new toy, watch her play with it, and realize with chagrin (…continue reading at BlogHer)
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..to this? I do so deeply that it makes my heart ache… ———— Last year on this day I was in the Dominican Republic meeting Maicol. This week another group of bloggers is going to see Compassion’s work in El Salvador
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I’m talking about kids and delays over at BlogHer this week! Have experience to add to the conversation? I hope you’ll come chat with us! Also remember that my cookbook giveaway ends on Monday, and the Cheer giveaway is still going on as well. Be sure to enter if you haven’t...
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Our 19 year old daughter headed off to start her second year of college yesterday. She has a cute on-campus apartment with 3 good friends. A car of her own.  Interesting classes this fall.  She’s close enough that she plans to come home on the weekends. It is an ideal...
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…of ‘A Sane Woman’s Guide’ at Conversion Diary ends this evening, so get over there quick and enter if you don’t have a copy yet. I suspect that Jennifer’s kind review of my book, and similar kind actions by many of you in that last months,  is why my book is...
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…that what I hate the very most about parenting is when one of my kids is hurting and I can’t fix it.  Can’t, in some cases, even make it one iota better, even when I’m trying my darndest. Argh. Sigh. How about you?  What do you hate most about parenting?
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I’m over at 5 Minutes for Parenting today, sharing an excerpt from my book.
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There are other children in the family who’ve taken lessons over the years, kids who now are pecking away, working towards proficiency. But so far she is the only one who has really achieved mastery. She is the one who has really loved it. Spent hours with it. Savored...
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