Nov 19, 2016 |
Relationships suffer when one or both people are holding in negative feelings about the other. Here, something has obviously shifted for your child. And you’re not feeling good either. Both of you will think better if you get your feelings out. Usually, when we feel...
Jul 16, 2016 |
We moved recently, relocating from one of the most forward thinking places on the planet to a small town. No more highways. Very little crime. Good people. But this is no city! Not long after we arrived, one of my boys called another “Homo!” And no, it wasn’t a “Dude,...
Jul 5, 2016 |
Sometimes it feels like my son is deliberately trying to push me over into that parenting place where my thinking stops and feelings rule. Where finally, after a full day of whining and sibling squabbles and talking back, I lose sight of my boy’s goodness and say...
Sep 1, 2015 |
It’s been a long, hot summer here in our new home. We have gone from North America to Middle East, freezing ocean to warm sea, English to Hebrew (but I’ll keep my posts in the former), urban to rural, family dog to no dog, burritos to falafel, no cousins to tons of...
May 18, 2015 |
It’s that place where we can help our children dream big — and give them the tools to make those dreams come true.On a recent morning, as I was dropping my second-grader off at school, he asked why he was on a single-A little league baseball team when...
