The one where she takes on Parenting Experts. (Oh, the irony.) For some reason this week, I’ve spotted a few different articles on how to talk to your kids. They are all very well-meaning, and some offer great advice. But that doesn’t mean I have don’t have a problem...
Are you struggling with toddler or teenage tantrums? Believe it or not, whether your child is 3 or 13, tantrums are shockingly similar and can often be a message request for the same thing: connection. We’ve talked about the opposite of assuming, what I call...
There is a video circulating on the interwebs that shows Will Ferrell coming on stage to play cowbell at his son’s concert. His son appears to be on the keyboard and singing and by the looks of it, is genuinely surprised when his dad walks out to a giant cheer. It’s...
I can’t remember when it happened first, the awareness that my behaviors as an adult were somehow linked to my experiences as a kid, but I do know it felt a bit like flying down a steep roller coaster. I was flooded with a bunch of emotions I wasn’t sure what to do...
I don’t remember growing pains as a child so it came as a surprise to me the first time one of my kids had them. I used to think it was just a figure of speech-growing pains. But then I had my first sleepless night with an adolescent who was writhing in pain in both...
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago. I wrote a book. Actually, let me back up a few years. I didn’t just write a book last week. In 2016 I was working at a job that left me with a ton of downtime and nothing but a laptop in front of me. I had just spent a year in a...
I posted the picture you see above on Instagram recently. It shows the choices my teenager and I made about what was appropriate to wear outside in the snow. Clearly, posting about this incident meant I had some opinions about life with teenagers in the caption. If...
