When my kids were in the teen years and there seemed to be more conflict in our home than I wanted to deal with, I started doing some introspection as to what truths I held in my parenting. What I discovered was that all the things I had learned from my parents during my childhood weren’t necessarily […]
Have you ever been in a situation with one of your kids where you questioned what is true? I’m actually in that situation like that right now and I’ll admit it’s a struggle. I spin daily trying to see the situation from every angle, trying to understand what could have really happened to get us […]
Late in the day, I received a text about my on-line purchase. I had been tracking it since early morning. I had gone out to my front porch several times and even out to the mailbox in anticipation of its arrival. The tracking service had even said it had arrived in the vicinity and would be […]
“It’s shattered,” came the response from the orthopedic surgeon as he looked at my 21 year old son’s x-rays. “Impressive,” he continued with a grin. “How did you do this?”
I remember a time when my kids were excited about extended family coming to our house to stay for a week. It was an annual occurrence that would be a happy yet dreaded time of the year for me. On the one hand, I was looking forward to the time to reconnect, but as time […]
A very wise counselor said to me one time, “If it isn’t a matter of life and death, it doesn’t need to be fixed right now.” Oh, I wish I had heard those words years before and really grasped the true meaning. The most common thing I hear from parents is that a kid knows the consequence […]