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Dearest Henry: Happy 4th Birthday
To My Most Favorite Henry in the Whole World:
You are a gem. At your birthday celebration at school, the teacher asked the children in your class to go around the circle and ask you questions. One child asked, “What is your favorite thing to do at home?” And you said, “Cuddle with my mama.” Two more children asked you the same question and your response was the same.
You melt my heart.
The thing is, you are not clingy or needy. You are fiercely independent and full of your own ideas and your own way of doing things. I try to step back to let you do things your … Read More
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Montessori Practical Life: 19 Months
According to Montessori theories of child development, children start demonstrating a readiness for practical life activities between 15 and 18 months. I feel badly that I haven’t sufficiently supported Tate’s development in this area. He’s definitely ready! The other day I handed him the pizza sauce and the spreader, and he applied the sauce to our pizza crust. He can also transfer laundry into the machine, carry a child-sized basket from the bedroom to the washer and dryer, and put away his clothes and shoes. I bet he would even help wash the dishes if I could muster up the patience and time to support him! It’s amazing what little… Read More -
Self-Help Daily Digest
I love receiving daily updates from Brian Johnson. He reads self-help books and synthesizes them into brief summaries and videos. A lot of the concepts he covers are things that I grappled with in my twenties–things that now enable me to set ambitious goals and break them down into smaller next steps.One of the updates from last week is still something I’m thinking about:——from Brian Johnson——
… Read More“The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can
