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Being the sort of parent you wish you had had, and providing an environment you would like to have had as a child, is probably the ea...

In early 2008, sharing some interesting connections that had happened at our house, I wrote: That all 'just happened,' but it ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Think about how you feel when you are "out of sorts." What will help you? What do you want from your...

Deb Lewis wrote: My mom was a kind person, but she was a negative person. Something was always wrong, something was always going to...

Karen James wrote: Look for moments in the day that are good—especially the ordinary moments. Pause and appreciate them when you see ...

Paula L. wrote, years ago: I wondered if I should pick up the puzzle pieces from the carpet, since the puzzle was mostly ignored. Ma...

How do you apportion your patience, attention, courtesy, time, money, material help, respect? Those sorts of decisions make you who...

What I...do, is to help people live calmly and peacefully. It always interests me when people want me to stop doing that, to take it b...

Many years ago I had a profound moment, watching a family therapist/psychologist on Phil Donahue's talk show. He said many family pro...

Just breathe. Don't waste a moment of enjoying who they are by worrying about who they might become. —Judy Vastine SandraDodd.c...

Experience is the only true teacher. Give your kids experiences, not lessons. Give them opportunities to follow their hearts until they e...

A mom posting as "Scooter," in 2001, wrote: I personally believe that most knowledge, no matter how trivial or useless to anyo...

A child who chooses school is in a different sort of place than others at the same school who have no choice. For them, if the parents ar...

If you can envision the kind of relationship and the life of learning you want to have, then every time you make a choice, choose t...

Diana Jenner wrote (not "lately" anymore) : Football has been a big connector lately. Hayden loves claw machines and on our t...

Some kids are more monkey than their parents are. When that happens, it can be invigorating to find an adult who will converse and joke w...

Your children are not works in progress. They are whole people, now and from the day they were born. If you can try to see that, rather t...

Reading is something that can take years of slow development. It requires some maturity of mind and body, neither of which can themselves...

Sue Sullivan wrote, of joy: It is clear to me now that happiness—or the lack of it—is a deliberate practice—a cumulative impact from doze...

Mainstream advice often reminds moms not to worry, that kids will be just fine. Kids are resilient. Kids won't remember. For purpos...