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Helping Children Develop a Solid Foundation
I’ve been following Monica’s journey back to full-time work away from the home over at Attachment Mama. Her post about all the separation anxiety and emotional turmoil the change is creating within her family makes my heart ache.
On the one hand, I think it’s healthy for children to experience discomfort and some uncertainty. Those emotions are most definitely part of all of our lives, and I believe that we need to cultivate the ability to be comfortable in those moments. We need to develop self-soothing mechanisms in order to cope with inevitable discomfort and uncertainty. We need to experience discomfort and uncertainty in order to practice dealing with … Read More -
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast
I’ve been working on a few blog updates (as part of my master plan for summer vacation). I wanted to bring a few of them to your attention.Without further ado:
- I now have an RSS feed in the right-hand sidebar beneath my profile. I didn’t even know I didn’t have one (it’s dangerous when we don’t know what we don’t know). Thanks to Michelle for requesting one! Please let me know if it works…
- You’ll notice there are new buttons at the bottom of every post. If you’re feeling generous, please click on them sometimes. They’ll help me spread the word about my little humble corner of the
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Being a Neighborly Neighbor
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The view from our bungalow to the house across the street
Matt and I have only lived in our humble bungalow for two years. In that time, people have come and gone in the rental house across the street. We were really good friends with the first family that lived there. We went to their birthday parties, we talked on our porches, we cooked S’mores together.
And then they moved. We were heartbroken but not discouraged. We attempted to make friends with the new neighbors. They were young and interesting. We walked our dog with theirs. We invited them to our monthly potlucks.
And then they broke up. In an
