You want to teach your kids purpose & meaning? Put these 15 books on your bookshelf. Create the environment & they will come to discover and to develop in their own time. Prepare the environment and allow for liberty within the environment. My husband and I lie and breathe that fact of life, including with […]
110+ Simple Ways to Love Your Son
Unlike girls, boys connect by doing and by moving rather than by talking. It is just the way it is, the way the brain develops and the natural matter of fact that male and female brains are different. Don’t believe me? Check out this book for more background. Additionally, I have learned to understand and […]
A Simple Change in Verbiage Made All the Difference
For so many years, we have heard the advice that begs to ask your child “how would you feel if…” I took this approach with my three boys for years. Yes, years. My oldest is almost nine and I have been practicing positive communication – acknowledgment, validation, and so on…since in-utero. You think I am […]
It’s a Fact: Brain Differences Exist Between Boys and Girls
The other day we wrote our letters to Santa and my six-year-old son’s letter broke my heart. He is my “difficult child”, the one who gets labeled as “explosive” and “rigid”. Like many instances in our family life, I approached the letter writing as an exercise of reflection for my sons. I asked them to think about […]