Picture it: Sicily Frigid Ohio, five years ago. The bottom of my stainless steel sink is buried under a layer of baby bottles that must be washed tonight or her 3 AM wakeup is not going to go well. Tears stream down her face as soon as I walk away to do anything. The...
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Heart armor used to do the job of my missing boundaries. Maybe you know this armor as your ego. It’s that voice inside your head that judges others as good or bad to...
In our homes, it’s so easy to fall into the trap of being busy with all of the doing of adulting without even really connecting with our kids until they do something...
Handing over my crying baby to a person I barely knew and having to leave her to go to work was a source of major anxiety for me as a new mom. The guilt at having to...
My daughter was screaming, crying, sobbing. “I want to watch Dory in the basement!” she repeated, over and over again. My dad and his wife were in...
One of the reasons why I love talking about using play with children is because it’s such a BOGO. It moves the energetic state of parent AND child, which changes...
Well, when we can all leave the house again! Coronavirus has us stuck now but there are still plenty of decisions to make. Yesterday I found myself whipping out something I made a while ago - the DREAM process. I was trying to decide whether we needed to invest in...
You know how you try to carry all the groceries in with one trip - sliding bag handles up your arm or grabbing as many as you can without asking for help? Or maybe help isn't even around? I think we have a tendency to be as efficient as possible, to learn as much as...
