Teens and technology… as a parent of a teen who grew up with a lot of screen time as a preteen, I understand full well the headache this can cause. When I was a child, my main source of entertainment was playing with friends in the neighborhood outside until my folks called me in for…
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It happens to even the most savvy of web surfers. We type in something that seems totally innocuous or click on a link that looks like it would be safe in any other universe, and suddenly we’re inundated with pop up ads, sounds of a “questionable” nature start blaring out of…
Dear Vidur I begin this letter today with gratitude – I appreciate it very much when you tell me you enjoyed the day’s letter to you. It fills me with happiness and a sense of accomplishment. The word for today just jumped out at me: Grow. This applies to everyone, every…
Dear Vidur, Isn’t it funny we have never exchanged letters? Not surprising. Unless you count our emails, which are usually acknowledgments and mostly love, hugs and thank yous. I surprised myself by wanting to stick with a theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge and I am pretty sure it…
I am privileged to write this post on practising compassion in parenting for #1000Speak and Finish the Sentence Friday hosted by Kristi Rieger Campbell of Finding Ninee. Our prompt for FTSF today is “”Compassion is important because…..” More about the 1000Speak movement at the end of the post. Practising Parenting with Compassion…
Surprised at that outburst? You should be. And with good reason. Because I am really not the kind of person who’d make declarations like that. So fine, maybe I’ll think it in my mind a zillion times (and counting) but I wouldn’t actually shout it out. Here’s what brought it on.…
Yesterday a close friend called. We were talking after a month, which is very unusual because the longest we’ve gone without a phone call is a week. We invariably end up calling each other on a Monday – mid-morning – around 11ish when we’re both done with the morning stuff and…
