Mike sent me this pretty interesting article in Scientific American by Carol S.Dweck, “The Secret of Raising Smart Kids.” He thinks it is a good read and there is nothing really surprising in it.
‘Nothing really surprising’ translates as common sense to me. Common sense, in my experience and the experience of lots of other [...]

This is just too bloody cool. Check out what Diane and Barbara are doing - “What’s In Your Belly?”
“We women often have a love hate relationship with our belly. It holds our life story: pregnancy and abortion, illness and health, and yes, the seat of our emotions.
This workshop will explore what [...]

Kathryn turned to me and said, “I hate you” while she was shoveling purple spoonfuls of blueberries, raspberries and boysenberries, which I had so graciously thawed in the microwave, into her little gob (the little ingrate). Well “little gob” is a euphemism in our house for gynormous flip-top head. This kid was born with [...]

I was reading Joan Casey’s material on Boundaries: Solutions for life. Specifically the parenting effects of the Intrusive boundary mistake in Chapter 2 The Six Big Mistakes. I realized with a heart sickening thud that I do, “go beyond Kathryn’s messages that say “no”: making her hug me (or more specifically forcing a hug on [...]