I love receiving questions from readers, love how it makes me think a little harder and evaluate what I believe about parenting. I received an email from Shelly a few weeks ago and have been contemplating it ever since. She writes: I have a question for ya. We have a two year little girl. She is an amazing piece of…
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Since there was so much that needed to be done inside the house today after all of last week’s adventures, it seemed the perfect time to ignore all the bathrooms and laundry and kitchen disaster and head out to an area of the house which most certainly needed priority attention. Not. So I decided to tear apart the garage. Now…
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Had one of the Deer-in-the-Headlights-Mommy-Moments today. I was standing in the check-out line at my beloved Costco, cell phone to ear, talking to Mike. Jairus, our 5 of 8, 9 years old, was at the other side of the cart, playing his hand held Nintendo DS. I had just started to put our groceries onto the conveyor. Even while on the…
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This little girl gives us a run for our money, trying to navigate the complexities and treasures of her personality. And her physical and occupational therapies. But we’re getting it figured out. Little by little, more ideas and approaches and insights present themselves. Present themselves as ways to wake up that little left hand. We had a big kahuna meeting…
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I spoke this evening to a group of amazing women, and I shared with them this story that I wrote a post on a couple of years ago. It always amazes me the number of women who relate to the negativity of ‘girl talk’ from the elementary and junior high years and the impact it has on our self esteems….
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