Archive for August, 2012
Compass – Safe Place Visualization
Your mind is a powerful tool and it is connected to the body in almost magical ways. In fact, your body does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined and will respond to your imagination, the way it does to reality. Just like your tongue will salivate at the very [...]
Parenting – Watering Our Roots (or Why Grown-ups Need Time-Outs Too!)
As I sit looking down at my flight information, I can’t help but to smile and breath in a huge heaping sigh of relief. Finally, I am getting away from it all. Not just from the hustle of working late night hours at my part-time job in Manhattan, but away from my other, full time [...]
Parenting – Guess Who’s Coming to California?
The month of June was highly anticipated with a family trip to beautiful San Diego, California. The trip marked the end of a painfully long six months since I had last seen my three children: Josiah, 16; Grace, 14 and Kenissa, 10. For the last two years they have lived with their mother in South [...]
Arts – Summer Craft Time: Paper Plate Maracas!
Summer is filled with so many things for families and children – summer camp, beaches, swimming pools, vacations – but the hot, lazy days can also fine parents or caregivers at a loss to stimulate young minds during their down time when sending them to school is not an option. Here’s where craft time can [...]
Education – Summer Classroom
Summer becomes an open classroom for your children to experience and learn in the world around them, and gives parents an opportunity to become “teachers.” You, the Parent Teacher, can choose the curriculum by creating lessons through specific experiences, such as going on vacation or spontaneous activities within your daily summer routine. In conferences, I [...]
Nutrition – The Pool Party
It couldn’t have been more perfect, a private hilltop house on Hawaii’s Big Island overlooking the Kohola coast with views of humpback whales splashing in the Pacific Ocean. We had a full week and no itinerary aside from exploring the island and enjoying our first vacation together. While I knew that family vacations would never [...]
Psychology – Stay Where You Are or Go Somewhere Else
Vacation or staycation? Two choices for a holiday – either go somewhere or stay where you are. Either way you are investing your time and energy into something. I have found this to be a really useful metaphor for the choices we make in life. About 26 years ago (to save you doing the math [...]
Cause – Encountering a Black Bear and Now the National Government
I find that staying home to make my dreams come true is actually a similar emotional journey as the one I would take if I were to go on vacation. I guess it makes sense that the vacations that bring me the greatest fulfillment and joy would parallel the path I take when I follow [...]
