Our parenting needs to give our children the structure and safety they need to sprout and send out roots, without imposing limits on what they can accomplish. These things are rarely taught by words, but by action and experience. Many times we pass on our limiting beliefs to our children without realizing it. They come to accept mental box that we have put around our own lives and possibilities as true for them as well.
Read moreThis approach is something every parent can do. I’ll never forget the day my mom stopped helping me with my homework. It’s […]
Read moreWhen you live overseas with children a conversation you might often have is about raising third culture kids, or TCKs. TCK is […]
Read moreIt was February 2001 when I became pregnant for the first time. That baby is now 17 years old, and probably leaving […]
Read moreDear Pax, You are perfect! You are everything a little boy should be. You are strong and agile. You climb and jump […]
Read moreLeaving the house alone is always an event for me. Aaron can get up in the morning, get himself dressed, look at […]
Read moreHe took me out for ice cream for my birthday, trying on phrases in the same way he’s trying on manhood for […]
Read moreSunday night on our way home from the market the clutch went on our car. We pulled over at the first place […]
Read moreHe’s only half awake, angry, because he wet the bed, and he doesn’t usually but he’s been sick, and he’s so eager […]
Read moreDear Boy, Twelve years ago today you made me a mother. It didn’t go at all as I had planned, and dreamed […]
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