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Do You Really Know How to Take Care of Others? Creating a Mission Statement for Everything

January 20, 2023

Do you really know how to take care of someone? I’m only asking because I actually didn’t. I thought I did. My version of caring for someone was to [...]

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Helping – The Sunny Side of Control

January 13, 2023

Parenting: Giving Kids Dignity

Many wise women have taught me that if I start to repeat myself to the people I love, I’m trying to control them. Sister, say what? “Say it once,” [...]

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My Twelve Steps of Parenting – Things I’ve Learned in the Last Eighteen Years

May 13, 2022

As I wind down to my last few blog posts, I’d like to share this list that’s been kicking around in my ‘drafts pile’ for a while. This list [...]

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Editing the Family Manual – Cut and Pasted from Generation to Generation

April 22, 2022

The year was 1995. I was walking behind a father and his daughter in the garment district in New York City. I watched as the father handed his child [...]

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Did Anyone Ask You? Three Issues With Giving Unsolicited Advice

February 25, 2022

Do you ever invest time and energy into making someone else’s life more comfortable despite never being asked to help? I often find myself convinced I know what’s best [...]

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A note on white paper in children's handwriting with the word disaster spelled with a "z". The note reads, "Good new, bad news. My room is a disaster but the reason it is a disaster is because I am cleaning my closet, my toy bin and my whole room."

Correcting People When They Talk – You Knew What I Meant!

December 10, 2021

We had someone over the house recently who was correcting one of my children. Correcting them in a way that we just don’t correct people around here. If someone [...]

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You’re Only as Happy as Your Least Happy Child? Not on My Watch

October 22, 2021

“You’re only as happy as your least happy child,” has always been one of my least favorite quotes. I’m not sure if it’s because of the lack of control [...]

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The Good and the Bad – Which Witch I Want to Be

October 15, 2021

For years, I was never quite sure if I learned more from the Good Witches or the Bad Witches in my life. There are those people who’ve pushed me [...]

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Natural Born Dream Crusher – How to Stop Myself From Destroying their Dreams

July 9, 2021

If it weren’t for my husband and some other wise folks, I’d be a bonafide, full-fledged dream crusher. When my kids come to me with their latest and greatest [...]

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Summer is Awesome – Taking My Grumpy Out on Others

July 2, 2021

Years ago I used to take whatever was going on in my day out on other people. My grump would have nothing to do with them of course, but [...]

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