NOTES & REFLECTIONS #1
“How To Talk So Kids Will Listen”
By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Discipline and punishment are not the same thing.
All my life I’ve heard these two words used interchangeably. However, although the intention may be the same, they employ different skill sets and have opposite results. I made a list of […]
We aren’t sure what happened exactly, but for several weeks we’ve known a stray cat (or perhaps several) had been able to find a way in and out of the house because we discovered a chair covered in fur, where it had obviously been sleeping. And we noticed a cat running away from the house […]
I was really looking forward to starting a routine in our house with the return of fall but that continues to be an impracticality. With all the running back and forth from one house to another, our schedule is very unpredictable. I was hoping to have a few hours set aside each day so I […]
More Than Fine has a written a post discussing her childhood experiences of dealing with divorce and adultery. Despite her efforts, those memories occasionally give rise to worries in her adult life. I think that’s perfectly normal. No matter how hard we try to get past our childhood crap, there are things that stay with […]
