Someone asked me about natural consequences yesterday. Natural consequences are unbelievably useful and effective in helping our kids (and ourselves!) learn valuable lessons about accountability and responsibility. But they are largely underutilized because we as parents so often have a hard time letting our kids be uncomfortable or deal with disappointment. First I think it’s important to make […]
fuck up
Not mistakes. OPPORTUNITIES.
My great grandmother was a strong, tough and opinionated woman with a thick Swedish accent. And I was completely intimidated by her. She was a good lady. She was more of a mother to my mom than her actual mother was. But she had a very hard shell, and I never felt like I was able to crack […]
Dear Ryan Lochte
I have been thinking about you a lot lately. There’s obviously quite a bit of speculation going on as to what the hell really happened with you and your buddies down in Rio. Whether you just embellished a story or you twisted some of the facts or the whole thing was bullshit from beginning to end, at […]
Mom, What The Heck Are You Talking About???
Every year Number 5 and 6’s school does this 26-Days-Of-School-Left countdown where each day has a theme which is related to a letter of the alphabet. You start with “A” day and work your way down to “Z” day on the last day of school. Number 5 is the girliest of my girls, and she […]