Valentine’s Day is everyday at my house. Truly. As frustrated, angry, tired, annoyed as we may get with one another from time to time, I begin each day and end each day feeling truly grateful, knowing how much love is in this house. Dr. Karen Reivich has posted a great article about creating a Love [...]
In our society’s ever-hungry quest for happiness, I wonder why it is that so many times we adults seem focused on killing other people’s happiness. In this month’s Fishful Thinking newsletter, Dr. Karen Reivich talks about Joy Multipliers and Joy Thieves, or, as I like to call them, Fun Squashers. Joy Thieves (or Joy Postponers) [...]
{10.21.10} Today I had the first parent-teacher conference for my son. Most folks know that my son is a highly sensitive child. Transitions have always been challenging, and new situations, especially with new children and/or in new/loud/busy places, can send him into immediate, explosive tears. I’ve been on pins and needles the past 2 months [...]
Grandparents Day was last Sunday, so my family and my brother’s family took my parents out for lunch at the Old Spaghetti Factory, where they were offering their annual Grandparents Eat For Free weekend (great deal!). We usually don’t make a big to-do about Grandparents Day, except last year, I had my 6 year-old son [...]
When my son started preschool, he cried almost every day, at some level, for several months. If the kids were in a different classroom when we arrived, his whole body would tense up, and he’d cling to me as he burst into tears. From the time he was born, anything that changed his routine in [...]
Raising independent kids is super important to me. I work very hard to try to raise my children to be optimistic, empowered, problem-solving individuals who can fend for themselves in any situation, at any time. Today my son got his own cereal and milk for breakfast. He gets his own bowls, plates, utensils and snacks, [...]
Besides the obvious wider hips & thighs and crying-for-lipo mid-section, becoming a mother has shaped the person I have always been into the person I have wanted to be. I can honestly say that being a mom is what has forced me to be happy with me. Fifteen years ago, I would have laughed in [...]
The kids and I like to do a lot of crafts, and the biggest lesson for me is always to revel in the mess and let the kids’ creativity take them wherever it is they want to go. For Valentine’s Day, the kids helped me as I designed their cards and stickers. Done within the [...]
Today is about stillness. I woke up after not-enough-sleep, got the kids dressed, fed, lunches made, out the door and to school. Went to work, picked up things, answered emails, designed some business cards, labels and ads, answered more emails. Left the office, checked on my consignment balance and picked up some fall clothes for [...]
My son is a lover of rules and rituals. I know most kids crave them, but my son not only thrives on them, he relies on them and if one thing is off, the whole day is off. Sometimes, I would fear he lived in the world of rules too much. Things that are new [...]
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