“You’re going to do it like that…?” Helping my teen learn life skills.
Brownish-Greenish Smoothies and Fibrous Tissue
I want my children to thrive. You want your children to thrive. Which raises the question: What does thriving look like?
Cringing: Kids and Mental Health
What if my kids struggle with mental health? A thought for helping with the depths (hint: move).
Get Happy, I Said
One step at a time is the quickest way to get to feeling happy.
Welcome to Crappy Zone! Population: You
When we feel crappy, it’s hard to show up (hello, crappy zone!). Enter self-care baseline. Yes, it’s THAT important.
Responsibilities and A**hat Mode
Let’s all take a reminder for today (adults/parents and teens/kids alike): We’re not responsible for the feelings, happiness, or emotional well being of any other person — only ourselves. Say it with me if you need to. We’re not responsible…
Make Me Happy: On Happiness and Other People
Check out a teen’s perspective on happiness, ourselves, and other people. A tough (though useful) life lesson I’m starting to get (after years of trying to please every coach, teacher, boss, and other “authority figure,” even into adulthood, and seeing…
Belonging To Oneself
If we want our children to belong to themselves*, to know and feel and get that they are awesome and worthy and enough and full of potential and possibility, that they do not need to fit into the box of…
Creating Their Own Content
The world of our children and their experience is different than ours is/was. And that’s not good nor bad. It simply is. However, the general human underpinnings, feelings and emotions, yearnings and wanting to belong — it’s there for our…
To the Kids
This one is for our kids. My dear kiddos: As adults we try to teach you so much — in huge part because we are reparenting ourselves (which you will do too). Our own parents did the best they could,…