"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, and you are deserving of love and belonging." Brene Brown gives this excellent quote toward the end of her well known Ted talk on vulnerability . It's so hard to be vulnerable, isn't it? What if you...
Graduation. That's on many parents' minds each May. It might be a college graduation, high school graduation , middle school graduation, Kindergarten graduation or even preschool graduation. Maybe it's even a "graduation" from diapers to a big potty. Each one is a time of transition...
Mother's Day is big business for card stores, restaurants serving brunch, florists and even jewelry stores. The average amount Americans will spend (for each mom) on Mother's Day is around $170! Wow. That's a lot of STUFF. In honor of mothers all over, I thought...
Complacency and Contempt: Recently I heard someone say "familiarity breeds complacency", a slightly different version of the old saw "familiarity breeds contempt". It got me thinking about some of the most familiar of relationships and what can too easily happen to them. All relationships of...
One day the Sun and the Wind were having a bit of an argument about who was more powerful. Finally, they decided to have a contest to end the disagreement. The Wind noticed a woman wearing a light overcoat and said "Whoever gets that coat...
Recently I was called upon to help with the psychiatric part of a case I believe is really PANDAS . In route to that, I’ve been learning a lot more than I knew before and thought it might be helpful to many parents out there...