Walking through a city park torn up by a fierce storm the other day, the metaphor was not lost on me. Huge trees lay splintered
Tag: parenting
To be or not to be … emotionally mature
To be emotionally mature means to understand that you are human and when you make a mistake to not beat yourself up about it. To realize that sometimes outcomes are different than we expect and that everyone is responsible for their own feelings, and for expressing their needs clearly.
Parenting lessons
When we choose to entertain lies because somehow we feel that they help our children, we do nothing else but teach our children that lying is the way to get through life. We underestimate our children if we think they cannot tell, even at young ages, that their parents are unhappy, that their relationship is loveless, that they (the kids) are a burden. Fake smiles, fat wallets and no boundaries are harmful wannabe blindfolds. They only teach one lesson: when lying to yourself gets too hard to bear, you can numb your feelings with these.
The step-parent – a step up in the parenting realm
Being a step-parent, you get all the responsibility and very little of the title, you get to put in the work and most of the times not only not get the credit but have to sit on the sidelines and watch birth parents take the credit, even when they have absolutely nothing to do with the child’s achievements.
Are we raising snowflakes?
A while ago, my mother told me about the word “snowflake” used as an attribute to define the generation of children we are raising. And,
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