Raking your way to maturity?
Recently I’ve been teaching about boys and the challenges they face these days as they try to launch into becoming …
Author Archives: Kathleen Fischer
The BEST Family Idea in a LONG Time Just in Time for Thanksgiving!
In research done on kids and resilience, that is, the ability to overcome difficulty, researchers discovered an odd connection: Kids …
Wish I had a quarter. . . .
Although I have posted this before, I consider it a boy-parent-classic. Here it is again in case you and your …
Gottas and Wannas – How to Persist When We Don’t Want To
Some decades ago Marlo Thomas and her friends recorded an album to help children learn about discarding sexual stereotypes. NFL …
Building a Bridge Toward Young Adulthood: STOP Trying to Fix Things
Do you ever have times when you’re just trying to help but one of your kids blows up in your …
MOM!!! I’m FINE!! _ Too much noise?
Let’s give a big shout out to Nina Kraus for her article, “Hearing Too Much in a Noisy World,” in …
The Right Amount of Busy
Like me, I’ll bet one of the first things you noticed about The COVID Shutdown of Spring 2020 was that …
A WORTHWHILE RE-POST: Transitions: We Are Neither Here nor There
Photo from Unsplash by Marco Lastella If you stop to think about it, adolescence is THE period of life MOST …
Season(s) of Transition
It’s THAT season again…the Season of Transition. I’m not sure why we don’t give Transition more attention since it is …
REAL Questions from REAL Parents: Sometimes my kid seems SO ungrateful! How can I combat entitlement?
This mom is NOT the only one of us to think, “Wow! Am I raising a pack of over-indulged, snotty …
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