When my marriage ended, I actually thought I just might stay single forever. My thinking was that this would be easier. Mostly because I really could not conceive of how I might ever bring another man into my children’s lives. They have a dad already, so they certainly don’t need another one of those. And, […]
Be it resolved that as a mama, I choose love… As a parent life is a little bit like navigating the climb up a steep mountain. At the top of the mountain there are gorgeous meadows and stunning views. At the bottom, a murky, stinking, sucking, cesspool of a swamp. The terrain in between can […]
I once had a radio host comment to me, “You have to be very brave to do all of this talking about how we discipline our children.” And anybody who has followed along with the comments feed for many of my articles about discipline might tend to come to the same conclusion. There is nothing […]
A few years ago I found myself on a plane – without my husband along for support – with our then 3 and 7-year old children. Maxwell, our youngest, soon fell asleep. And whether it was because he was just getting over a flu-bug or woke up in a strange place or something else, he […]