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3 Things Your Tween Wishes You Didn’t Do

  I have full faith in you and your parenting, yet I want to share what some tweens I met with wished were different.    1) Taking their phone away every time they mess up.  They feel it’s your...

Keeping Promises in the Time of Conflict

  Your adolescent is angry, and she directs it at you. Before school started last fall, you two agreed that submitting homework on time and holding specific grades in each class would earn her...

The Truth About Failing

  Failure sounds and feels like defeat and disappointment. Something that we didn't want to happen happened. Yet, its value lies in how we respond to it. I attended a concert where the singer kept...

Upgrade Your Summer to Easy

  Finally, we had a normal school year, and our hopes for a glorious summer soared. For it to go well, I recommend having a collaborative mindset and chatting about summer's expectations with the...

Mother’s Day Love to You

  I know you will enjoy the brunches, dinners, accolades, gifts, and flowers that honor you and your motherhood today. You deserve them for your selfless sacrifice and love. It’s lovely for you to...
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Bullying: The Beginning, Middle, and End.

Few things feel as disarming and disturbing as being bullied. As much as we hope our child is spared, they ...

Technology didn’t suck last week!

Do you vacillate between absolute appreciation and irritating impatience with technology? I suspect we share these extremes from time to ...

The #1 Valentine This Year

The media and stores do a fantastic job reminding us that it’s time to purchase Valentines. I know you plan ...

A Yearly Perk for Middle Schoolers

A super-cool perk of being in middle school is the giant window of opportunity that lies before your child on ...

How Mission Control Really Works

It happens all the time. You start a project with clarity, energy, and time. And then the interruptions begin. You ...

Help Your Tween Start 2022 on a High Note

We frame each new year with a deficit model. We stake out specific resolutions for self-improvement. We need to lose ...

You Made It!

I wanted to pop in your inbox before 2022 to say well done. I salute your commitment to learning about, ...

The Stranger

Minding my own business, I stood in line at Sprouts, balancing a pint of strawberries and three avocadoes. I noticed ...

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