5 Ways to Support Your Child Emotionally 5 Ways to Support Your Child Emotionally By JoAnn Schauf More than a year into this pandemic, we are tired of hearing the words uncertainty, new normal, and lost year. Worse, we’re exhausted from the limitations of living in...
How to Have a Sweet Chat How to Have a Sweet Chat By JoAnn Schauf Let’s talk about screen time for example. We share the same pleasure phenomena as our adolescents when it comes to screen time. We spend just as much time texting, watching videos, scrolling social...
March Madness Serves as a Metaphor for Life March Madness Serves as a Metaphor for Life By JoAnn Schauf The thrill is unmistakable for the 64 teams who qualify for the “Dance” of March Madness. No matter if the team is a perennial contender or on a maiden voyage, hope...
12 Things Your Tween Wants You to Know 12 Things Your Tween Wants You to Know By JoAnn Schauf I met with some middle school students who eagerly agreed that their parents love and care about them profoundly. Confidently they rely on you for everything they need. They...
Eclipsing our Biases Eclipsing our Biases I love Jake Brigance’s summation to the jury in A Time to Kill. He’s a white attorney representing an African American man who shot and killed the white men who raped his 9-year-old daughter. In the end, he asks the...
Take Care of Each Other Take Care of Each Other As I write to you, I wish I had the power to replace your sadness with joy, restore what you’ve lost, and eliminate the virus. I know you yearn for a superpower that would restore us to health and our normal...
