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Hello, Friends!
How have you been, dear Friends?Frankly, I’ve been overwhelmed by the weight of injustice in the world with the ascendance of Trump to power plus the resurgence of explicit, public white supremacy advocacy plus the spiraling threat of climate change plus the threat to immigrant rights and the rights of multiple other groups along various lines of difference. The worse part is that I know that my friends, colleagues, and neighbors who have less privilege than I do (as a white, cis-gender heterosexual with economic advantage) have to shoulder the weight of the injustice even more than I do.I continue to fight against injustice by focusing on a… Read More -
My Genetic Testing Update
We’ve been
on a journey in our family to get to the root of some of the issues we’ve been
having. The first issue we started addressing was Henry’s struggle with self-regulation.
It’s something we heard from teachers for multiple years before we finally took
action. When he was five years-old, we started him in a play-based therapy.
When his issues didn’t resolve themselves, we had him get tested by a
neuro-behavioralist (recommended by the therapist). Those results came back
pretty inconclusive. He said Henry might have ADHD in a few years but for now
it just looks like anxiety.He didn’t… Read More
have any solid answers about why a five -
How to Raise Children Who Aren’t Entitled
Or at least:
“Things we are trying in order to not raise entitled children.”My children
are doing a lot of things lately that I don’t like. They sigh if I ask them to
do something (or try to flat out refuse).Meanwhile, I’m
reading Little House on the Prairie and marveling at how much work the children
do to contribute to the home.First I got… Read More
the idea to create a more specific chore chart so that it was very clear to Henry
and Tate what their responsibilities were and how they would grow over time
(since part of the problem was that Henry was frequently complaining that Tate
