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‘Tis the Season: Gardening
During Spring Break, I decided it was time to get our garden going for the 2015 Spring/Summer season. We ripped out the lingering weeds, kale, and cold weather lettuces. We dug out as many grubs as we could find. We added a layer of Ladybug Revitalizer Compost. And we made a trip to Red Barn Garden Center and purchased four tomato plants.I still remember debating whether I wanted to build four raised beds into the plan for our front yard. I worried that I would lose interest in gardening and wouldn’t be able to keep up with it. I worried that I wouldn’t be able to grow anything… Read More -
Leadership Coach?
In this post, I wrote about how I
used to devote more time to intentional self-growth but I had grown out of the
habit over the years.One really quick way to get back… Read More
into the habit would be to start seeing a therapist. However, I think the more
relevant route for me at this point in my life (since my time is limited and I
need to stay very focused on my work) would be to look for a leadership
coach—someone who is part-therapist, part-life coach, part-executive coach, and
part strategist. It would be someone who is well steeped in things like
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Montessori: The Crisis of Self-Affirmation (aka the Terrible Two’s)
Last week felt it like something
was terribly wrong with Tate. He seemed to have shed his cheerful self and
revealed an irritable, demanding, dissatisfied little tyrant.For example, he became obsessed
with wanting the cleaning spray bottles. When I stuck firm to the boundaries
that children are not allowed to have the cleaning spray bottles because they
have chemicals in them, he threw terrible, protracted screaming and crying
fits.Things that he used to do easily… Read More
(like take a bath and eat meals with the family) became battles. Putting him to
sleep at night went from kissing him on the cheek and closing the door to 1.5
hours of
