One helpful aspect of parent awareness throughout your child’s life is to know when developmental milestones typically occur, while also respecting the individuality of his or her unique timetable. I was reminded by last week’s Wall Street Journal article about waving bye-bye, of just how delightful “milestone spotting” can be over the course of a […]

I’ll be taking the week off from the social media fest we all know and love (and sometimes don’t love so much) — to enjoy some deeper presence with the fullness of my life’s blessings. My daughter Eve is in the air as I write this, returning from a 6-month expat artist’s adventure in Berlin. […]

For anyone who becomes a mother within nine months of a major holiday season (and, taking into account all of the holidays within every faith and cultural tradition, that means almost everybody!) I have a radical idea for you: Simplify your idea of how the holidays will look this year. Better yet, let yourself let […]

How in the World Do We Lose the Stress and Loosen Up??! The more calm and confident we can be as parents, the more our children “catch our calm” and things go much better all the way around. And, as one of my favorite parent educator / psychologists, Lawrence Cohen, points out, our kids really […]