Disintegration
I’m sorry I went dark for a week. I’ve been struggling. Struggling with what I wrote about in my past post. Struggling with the fact that I wrote it...
Category: Parenting & Family
Parental Instincts
I read more parenting books than most people do. I always have. I welcome hearing the perspectives of people who have professional experience with many families...
When It Doesn’t Work
I have read a LOT of parenting books in my life and while I’ve liked some ideas from all of them there hasn’t been one book or author or overarching...
Outlines in the Landscape
This weekend was pretty nice. We didn’t end up having much going on which was exactly what we needed after being away last weekend. I enjoyed some one-on-...
More thoughts on Parenting (and some on Marriage)
I wanted to write a follow up to those last two posts for Friday, but I’m glad it didn’t happen. My perspective has changed a little since the weeke...
Not So Positive (on) Parenting
I’m struggling to find my way back to this space. Where I used to cherish the opportunity to process hard experiences and confusing feelings in a post; no...
The Two Week Wait
On Friday, March 13th, San Francisco Unified School District sends out placement announcements for the 2015-2016 school year. We should be getting ours in the m...
Mutually Exclusive
A lot of the articles I read about parenting insist on two imperative objectives: (1) parents taking care of themselves, so they will have the internal resource...
Introverts Among Us
I almost skipped the chapter in Raising your Spirited Child about extroversion and introversion. I am such a classic extrovert, constantly talking, riding an am...
I Don’t Know How
I’ve been really down this past week, stuck in a low, low funk. I thought it was my period, which took it’s sweet time showing up, and made me an aw...