Your child is on the playground and falls. She isn’t injured badly, but clearly the wind has been knocked out and it scared her. What do you do? How do you feel in that moment? Are you stifling your own fears? (She could really have gotten badly injured!!) Are you feeling disconnected? (She shouldn’t have been doing that and she
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The anger was rising in the room. Everyone could feel it. His face was red, fists and teeth clenched. Breathing was heavy. Maybe you’ve experienced something similar. Perhaps it was your partner or your child that was upset. I was becoming aware of the lump in my own throat. The pressure in my chest was moving up into my throat
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I was having a conversation in the car with my friend, Janet Conner. (If her name sounds familiar, she’s the author of the book, Writing Down Your Soul. I’ve interviewed her more than once about her soul writing process. She’s a good friend of mine and I love her work.) Back to the car. We always have wild conversations on the
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“I’m really struggling with nursing my 2 year old,” the mother confided. “I can’t say this to very many people because most people just say that I should wean. But that doesn’t feel right to me, either. So I nurse her even though I really don’t feel like it and I resent her for it. I want to meet Sarah’s
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I recently spoke to a mother who was concerned about how difficult it was to get her children, ages 7 and 9, out the door for school each morning. “I can’t make it through a single morning without yelling. It just makes me feel awful. I don’t want to yell at my kids, ever, let alone every morning.” As we
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I think a lot about where we are parenting from and how we relate to our children. For so many of us who we were parented ourselves from a place of fear and coercion, we find ourselves, in our less than ideal parenting moments, parenting this way as well. The words may just come out and hang in the air
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We are so busy! I’m sure it isn’t a surprise for you to hear that we all spend a great deal of our time in the “go, do, hurry” state. Every one of us has a really long to-do list that calls to us when we’re trying to relax or do something else that needs to be done, right? Am
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This is a follow-up post to Helping Your Kids Through a Hurricane: Thoughts on Irma What about after the storm? My family’s home base is in Florida. Both of my boys were in Florida for Hurricane Irma after spending the last couple of months with me in Mexico. My oldest, who is 18, drove with a friend to Indiana to stay
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How can you help your kids through a hurricane? What can you do in anticipation of the storm, and what can you do once it’s over to make sure your kids (and you) are moving through it in an emotionally healthy way? Read on. I’ve got some important things to share with you that aren’t being talked about by others.
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From the time our children emerge from the womb, we’re bombarded with questions about how well our babies sleep and eat. These questions sound innocent enough, yet seem to seek that deeper question of how much our children depend on us, how needy they are, and how independent they are from day one. It is unspoken, but it seems that
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