When my sister was younger she would literally wear her emotions on her sleeve…no…I’m serious…she would hold out her hands and wiggle her fingers and say “You hurt my feelings!” While a child showing you with their hands how their feelings were hurt can be pretty adorable, it also isn’t far from the truth. When […]
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Learning Generosity From Our Kids
I’m going to be honest with you here…I was ready to go home. We had just finished up a big grocery trip and a family dinner out after our long holiday weekend with family and I was just ready to head home and relax. We saw him sitting there with a sign “Anything helps”. It […]
My Kindergarten Boy, Part 2
This is the second story of my son’s journey through kindergarten this year. Make sure to check out Part 1 here. Anxiety…I think that’s probably a good word to describe how my wife and I were feeling about my son’s first day of kindergarten this year. We spent a lot of time thinking and agonizing […]
Raising Kindness and Caring
One of the Marion & Polk Early Learning Hub’s Core Messages is this: Parenting can sometimes be overwhelming. Balancing the demands of work, childcare, financial and emotional stress, may be all you think you can handle. There’s another part to it, but we’ll get to that later. I’d like to focus on this first part […]
Dear Little One
This may be surprising to hear, but I like to write. I know…I know it’s crazy right. A blogger who likes to write? Well, it’s true. I enjoy trying to make my thoughts and ideas come together to create a story or narrative that hopefully someone else can read and feel connected to. It is […]