Category: Parenting
Parenting – It’s…Play Time!
When I envisioned my maternity leave, I thought that I would be able to balance caregiving and playtime with my daughter with projects of my own on the side. I pictured myself doing “grown up” stuff, like reading or even working, while my baby played in her playpen. Ha ha ha! Really?! I can barely [...]
Parenting – The Gift
Our family loves Disney so much that we belong to the Disney Vacation Club and visit Disney World every 1 to 2 years. One of our favorite routines is to have a late lunch at Tony’s Restaurant in the Magic Kingdom and time the lunch so we can watch the afternoon parade from our table. [...]
Parenting – A New Life, A New Beginning
I have always dreamt of being a mother. Literally. But despite those countless hours I spent dreaming about this moment, I never imagined the incredible magnitude of becoming a parent and how it would change my life. Two weeks after I started my career I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. When the [...]
Parenting – Always a New Beginning
By Joel Telford The only constant in life is change, this I know; however, I find myself ignoring or neglecting to accept the fact that the most rapidly changing person in my life is my son. I have to sometimes catch myself and realize that he is physically expanding at a rate I will never [...]
Parenting – A Person and A Place
My two young sons and I were a tight trio, especially after a long and difficult split with their father, and we were ready for an adventure. We left California, drove across the country, and moved into a ramshackle farmhouse deep in the woods of Vermont, three miles up an old logging road, with very [...]
Parenting – Parenting Relationships: The Love Contract
There is a lesson I learned from a relationship many years ago that has stuck with me ever since… I regard this lesson as a contract between my partner and myself. The contract states that neither of us would ever consciously “come after” each other, which means that neither of us will EVER do or [...]
Parenting – My Resolution With ADHD
I am the mother of two wonderful boys. This New Year’s I can celebrate a successful resolution: I no longer put my little one, Ayden, in the “bad” category and my eldest, Christopher, in the “good” category. I am happy to have realized they can both be good with necessary encouragement. Christopher is kind, caring, [...]
Parenting – Positive Conditioning
By M.W. Bennett Every aspect of raising children, from toilet training to feeding is influenced by cultural beliefs and personal values. Children, in turn ascertain who they are and what they do through these practices. As the cliché states: “Children are like sponges.” They absorb routines, traditions, languages or identities and if properly directed, can [...]
Parenting – Embracing Cultural Differences
For any immigrant, moving and leaving one’s homeland to settle in another country is always a very difficult and challenging experience. At first, the thought of settling and starting a new life in another country sounds exciting and adventurous. These feelings are soon replaced by confusion, bitterness and sadness as the challenges mount and come [...]
Parenting – When Resentment Turns Into Gratitude
As a new Dad of a beautiful, healthy girl all I kept hearing was how great fatherhood was going to be. How in love with my newborn I was going to fall. Immediately and without exception she would have me wrapped around her finger. I heard this from A LOT of people. My reality was quite [...]
