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I won’t even pretend we have a perfect marriage because–we don’t. We love each other. We are committed to each other. But even with these firm beliefs, there’s that tiny detail that we often forget–we are human. So, we hurt each other. Now that you know I’m not speaking from a platform of “we’ve got …
I didn’t even realize I was doing this–The Worst Way to Compliment Your Children. I’m taking this awesome class with my son to empower him and help him build healthy neural connections. The teacher shared some thing simple that really stood out to me was this (I’m paraphrasing): You need to end a positive, encouraging …
It’s time to pull out the summer gratitude journal! We arrived at the event we were all so excited about. Lunch rolled around and we discovered the cost of our food was more than what I usually would like to pay. I didn’t say anything to the kids about it or my husband. Well, I …
For some reason summer time is the perfect breeding ground for “entitlement” to creep in. But raising grateful kids in an entitled world is not impossible. Below I share some practical ways. We had just arrived at our nice hotel in the Amazon jungle, a trip we’d enjoyed before but this time we were going to …
I am not sharing on behalf of my daughter or what I think my daughter wishes she got from her dad, because, for the simple fact, I don’t have a daughter. But I am a daughter myself. Though I have a house full of boys, young little men itching to leave their little boy shell …
