When I was a young professional woman, I recognized that a husband and children would fulfill me. I desired a committed relationship and the opportunity to parent. I had matured within a society that taught me self-reliance and independence at the cost of relationship and mutual support, but I recognized value in forming a partnership,…
Household Habits to Teach Your Children
While it may seem like a long way off, the little humans you live with and nurture are someday going to fledge the nest and find a nest of their own. When they do, it’d be nice if they knew their way around a washing machine. Here are some habits you can teach your children…
Is Your Teen Financially Fit?
Dear Parents of Teens: The pandemic has changed our everyday reality in so many ways—financially, educationally, and socially. Money may be tighter. Kids may be doing online school. And we’re all spending a lot more time at home. But for all the changes in our lives, according to a recent Schwab survey, there’s one thing…
Out of Hibernation and Moving Forward: 7 Tips for Parents
As states lift emergency restrictions put in place over a year ago, and we begin to emerge from this hibernation and get back to “normal,” we may want to recognize that a period of transition, for ourselves and our family members, may be needed. Here are some ideas that may be helpful for parents to…
Summertime Parenting: 10 Things to Consider Before Summer Gets Underway
Summertime offers a unique blend of joys and challenges for parents. The typical shakeup in daily rhythm and routines can leave parents scrambling. They may begin to feel like their children’s personal cruise directors as they attempt to find entertainment and activities to keep them occupied on a day-to-day basis. However, with just a little…
It’s OK to Be Birdbrained
One of the things I’ve noticed in the past several years after moving back to my roots in the Midwest, and recently moving to a more rural area with a lake and farmland nearby, that I didn’t notice before, is that by watching birds I realized they were created to be mentors for parents. “What?”…
Momma’s Tricks of the Trade: Adjusting Your Outlook With Landmarks
For many years, curious drivers on the rural route noticed three symbols on a telephone pole just south of my hometown. They were spray-painted bright white and reflected in the headlights of my dad’s Silverado as I drove home. Back in 1989, the message was a reminder to me and helped shape future events in…
How to Help Our Kids Thrive
The alarm bells around childhood anxiety and depression had already been sounding when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and struck a new blow upon the well-being of many of today’s kids. Michele Borba’s latest book, “Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine,” might be just the helping hand so many parents need…
Treasuring Our Children: Seeing Them as the Gifts They Are
You used to see her in the grocery store before COVID-19—the young mother in the pajama pants with two or three kids in tow, one of them wailing. Her discontented countenance is etched in your mind. As she fires off some crazy threat to one of the children, everyone in the aisle glances up, then…
Making the Mundane Magnanimous
Dinnertime again in a typical house on a typical day in America. The mother’s hands are elbow deep in dishwater when she hears a little gasp across the kitchen as her 6-year-old shuts the fridge. Mothers know these small but significant sounds. She turns to survey the damage while shutting off the water and listening…
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