When you say “attachment” next to the word “parent” too many people write it off as something trendy and requiring hairy armpits to deliver on. But the science of child development has irrefutably shown that attachment isn’t a trend and it isn’t something that only a select group of parents should be interested in. In […]
There is nothing like a minor natural disaster scare to get the anxiety flowing! Last night, shortly before midnight, those of us here on the West Coast in Canada experienced an small earthquake – strong enough to wake lots of us from a dead sleep. And strong enough to have our kids awake and asking […]
On Sunday evening I received a FaceTime call from my husband and our two boys. I was out of town at a conference, anticipating a quiet evening, when the bomb dropped that our two puppies were missing. Their names are Comet and Luna (you know, to carry on the celestial theme of pet names in […]
It’s the time of year when parents start talking about gratefulness and appreciation. As in, “Do my children appreciate all they have?” or “How can I teach my child to be grateful?” We look around our homes – around our lives – and think, “Our children have so much! How can they NOT be grateful […]
The other night I was helping my lovely boy get ready for bed. Ok. Start over. The other night I was attempting to help my lovely boy get ready for bed. And when it came to tooth-brushing time, it was like disaster had struck. He genuinely has a very sensitive mouth (yes, that’s a thing) […]
The other morning, I dropped my two boys off near the entrance of their school and negotiated back into the crazy queue of cars to find a parking spot. Normally, I would have just driven off and to my office at that point. But on this particular morning, I had to come into the school […]
With discipline such a hot parenting topic, and increasingly the message from experts and science being that time outs are not good for kids, what do you do when your child seems to actually want that?! I get asked this question a lot. Parents and other big people who have chosen to be very connection-focused […]
Every parent has been there. Your child comes home, exhausted after a long day, and you give them a snack, let them have some downtime, sit down to dinner, and then…it’s time to hit the books for them – again! They don’t want to do it. You don’t want to do it. And depending on […]
School is hard work. Whether your child enjoys school or is somewhat less enthusiastic, for every child, it is hard work. What is a school day like for a child – big or small? It goes like this. You have to sit still. For looooong periods of time. When you are built to move. You […]
“It’s such a wasted opportunity when a parent rescues a kid …” Jessica Lahey, author of the new book “The Gift of Failure” is quoted as saying the above in response to the “no-drop-off” rule in place at a Florida high school making all sorts of waves on social media this past week. Parents were informed […]