As my kids get older, I’m realizing that I’m not quite as affectionate as I used to be. After all, they know that I love them–right? When they were younger, it was easy to give them a kiss on top of their head as I wiped jelly off their face, or hold them in my […]
A friend of mine was talking a while back about the unbelievable boldness of her son’s girlfriend. “How dare that girl come into our home and act that way,” she verbalized to me. “I have no idea what Nick sees in her anymore. It’s like she has become a totally different person.” As the conversation […]
I’ve been traveling this week and randomly encountered two very different approaches to parenting. I even thought of titling this and my next post as “The Tale of Two Mothers”. The way these two moms approach life caused me to do a double take wondering how far I’ve come in my own parenting. The truth […]
As I talk to mothers across the country, I hear it more and more, “I’m afraid I’ll do something to mess my kid up”. I want us to take a step back from that statement and think deeply about what that real fear might be. Do we think that we might say something that will […]
Standing in the kitchen I was focused on fixing dinner when my teen walked through the back door. Barely looking up, I asked my son how his day went and continued pealing potatoes for the evening meal. He sat down at the kitchen island and rambled on about all the things that had happened during […]
Sitting on the deck reading while enjoying the warmth of the early summer sun, I barely noticed the activity at the pool nestled behind the evergreens. Immersed in my book, I was suddenly blasted with a string of profanity being hurled from the pool area. In a fit of anger, I watched a dad rant […]