Does Your Child Wish You Would Break Up With Your Cell Phone?

March 24, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Geez. Kids these days and their addiction to technology. Their Ipads. Their video games. Their cellphones. Constantly interacting on social media sites like Instagram. Twitter. Snapchat. Tumblr. Vine. As adults, we worry that they’re overly connected. Overly open. Overly in-love with technology. And definitely overly disconnected from the real world in front of them. Then […]

Wants and Needs Part 2: But I GREEEEEEEEEDDD IT!

December 21, 2012.Reading time 10 minutes.

Wants and Needs: Part 2 (Click HERE to read part one.) See if you can identify with this all-too-familiar scenario. You are standing in the check-out line at Target when you overhear a kid asking their parent to buy them something displayed on the shelf to the side of the checkout. As the parent tries […]

Wants and Needs Part 1: Mama Knows Best

December 14, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

Some days when it is time to put Paxton down for a nap, he runs from me. And even though he is giving me every indication that he is exhausted and in total and utter need of sleep, he refuses to give into his body or the relief that I am trying to offer him. And it can be […]

The Game You Always Win

October 26, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

The other day I took the boys to the park to let them burn off a little energy. As we were walking up to the equipment, another mom was leaving with her young son. As she was working to lead him back to their car, he escaped from her arms and ran away. He got […]