Tag Archives: Mothering Well

The other day, a friend of mine wrote a post on Facebook. In it, she talked about the joy she felt while watching her little boy splash around in mud puddles. She continued on to talk about...

I really have no excuse. I’ve been parenting too long for this kind of mistake. But there we were.Last night.2:30ish. In the ante meridiem. My nine-year-old son,...

It’s funny thinking back on life without social media or smartphones. I remember that I navigated high school pretty well without a cell phone. I think it was my first year in college that I fin...

I sat down today with Angel Kim and Jessie Scanzon at King's Preschool to ask some questions about back to school. This one is specifically for those young kids just going to school for the first time...

It occurred to me when my kids were in school that classrooms resemble cattle chutes.  Kids are expected to file into class, find their desks, and be ready for a day of focusing and learning.&nbs...

More than New Year's Eve, the click of the calendar to the beginning of the traditional school year feels more of a fresh start to me than the wilds of January. Fresh notebooks. New pencils. Bold reso...

Who’s raising your kids? Really? Yes, I know there is all kinds of dialog about how engaged parents should be in child-rearing, how much or how little we should rely on bab...

My kids and I have this thing that we do. They hand me trash, dirty dishes, or some other unwanted item. I look back at them and tell them to read my t-shirt. 'What does it say?'...

Social media has us “in the know” of everything these days. Want to know what your neighbor had for breakfast? I bet you can find it on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and who knows...

We took a look in a previous post at the ages and stages at which my husband Michael and I allow our kids to have certain privileges and liberties. Which, in a nutshell, depends. ...