Do you ever just stare in awe at your kids playing with their toys? Do you wonder what they're thinking and feeling as they tenderly care for a little doll or zoom around the living room with their Matchbox cars?
It's been about a year since...
Last spring, my younger son graduated from 5th grade. The 5th grade awards night included recognition of all the clubs, academic award winners, attendance awards, character awards, and citizenship and teacher awards. Through an hour and a half of awards, the same kids kept standing...
I invited a stranger into my house yesterday.
Not something I would normally do, but just last week I was complaining to my husband about our house being miles and miles from the entrance to our neighborhood. Getting to our house involves navigating multiple stop signs...
When I first began writing the series on Purposeful Parenting, my intention was to give parents a framework for understanding and relating to their kids. What I thought would be a hard core focus on intentional parenting turned out instead to be a commentary on...
How do you measure your life? How do you know if you matter? What's the one thing every kid longs for, every adult hopes for, and every person in the world needs--whether they admit it or not? This Fall, the PTA hosted a contest in which kids had...
Have you ever had one of those days that just turned out differently than the way you had it planned out in your mind? Basically, that's how today went. For starters, I live in a family that is notoriously behind when it comes to deadlines for...