My kids are 3.5 years apart, a boy and a girl, and they are best friends. Since we homeschool, they are together all the time. They each have their own friends and their own activities, but they spend the majority of their time together. They get along really well, but like all siblings, they have plenty of opportunities for repairing hurt
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Have you ever seen Chinese Handcuffs? They’re made of some sort of woven material and your fingers go into either end. When you pull them apart with your fingers inside, as if you want to move your fingers out of it, it tightens. The only way to get your fingers out is to stop struggling, and move in the opposite
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When you have little ones, there is a lot of talk about how “it’s just a phase” and “this too shall pass,” whether it’s about picky eating, tantrums, or some other behavior deemed inappropriate in our society. While it is true that many of those behaviors do pass with time, I definitely wasn’t expecting to still witness full toddler-style tantrums
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I’ve been working on the part of my book about nurturing relationships. Honestly, I found myself feeling kind of stumped. I’ve found that life circumstances sometimes create irony and laugh in the face of a writer trying to explore a particular topic. I’ve been blessed with a feeling of doubt- that I have no idea what I’m actually trying to say.
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I’m on a bunch of parenting groups on Facebook and am really floored by the responses to questions that have been posed. I read about a 16 year-old who wouldn’t go to school and the commenters were just awful toward the boy. I wrote about that situation in my newsletter Saturday morning talking about how else parents could look at
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My oldest used to have a difficult time around the holidays. It was all too much for her to take in, and she didn’t know how to tell me what it was that caused her to act so unlike herself. On day when she was four, I took her for a mommy-daughter date to do some Christmas shopping for her
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When my boys were younger, one of their favorite games was to play “Christmas” and “Santa.” We celebrated Christmas in our home and there were inevitably gifts wrapped up and placed under a tree. We tried to be really conscious of what we were giving them, so it was usually just a few small gifts from us and a few
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I didn’t manage to publish this on Halloween as I got wrapped up in work and then costumes. So even though it is late, I figure better late than never. It will be up for next year! Let me know your thoughts about this! What did you do? Did you turn off your lights and hide? Did you send the
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Do you have a relationship that isn’t working in your life? Do you need some support for actually working through the inevitable disconnections in life in healthy ways? (With your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your partner, your ex, your kids’ relationship with their other parent, your relationship with your kids, your step-kids, your mother-in-law, a friend… in short, the relationships of our lives!)
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I wanted to share a little bit about what’s been going on in my life and the lesson that keeps repeating itself over and over again in my life about how we’re better together. Hopefully you’ll hear something that may help you and your family be a little better together, too. We’ve had a lot of big transitions in our
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