UPDATE: This post originally appeared on my blog back when I was still using my Octamom handle. My status as someone who was both working and schooling from home was interesting to people because it just seemed so dang…weird. And impossible. But now, with the Covid-19 situation, many of us are finding ourselves as accidental homeschoolers and remote workers…at the…
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Listen, I had some big plans for kicking off the new year. I’ve got some serious pandemic-eating sins to atone for. I’ve got some fitness equipment that now boasts dust bunny grandbabies to the original dustbunnies. And I’ve got some professional and family goals for which I had planned to hit the ground running. And the first couple weeks of…
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It happened again. I was pulled into the middle of a dispute between two friends. Sort of. They didn’t exactly ask me to be in the middle of it. They didn’t exactly seek out my advice. But because of where this conflict happened, it included me. This clash didn’t take place in a monitored face to face intervention or in…
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I love personality styles. Not that I always love dealing with certain personality styles. But boy do I find the different ways people respond, the variety of things that make people tick, absolutely fascinating. When I think about personality styles and the variety of assessments out there to reveal certain aspects of personality, most of those assessments and quizzes are…
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So often, sitting there in my email inbox or in my DMs on Instagram or in the comments on my Facebook page, is a parent reaching out, struggling with figuring out their kid. The challenges are varied, the ages and stages different, but at the bottom of it all is a mom or a dad trying to understand what makes…
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