About our family
It seems most of us in the entire world are experiencing quarantine (albeit government, news media, and “essential workers”) in solitude. We are shacked up in homes, alone; holed up in apartments with mates; re-homed with parents; at home with children. Yet there are some that are homeless, enduring this all alone. What we’re all …
Lots of thinking. milling. pacing. doing. resting. looking. and wondering. In all actuality, I’ve been worrying. Creating my own personal hell –while quarantined. Isolated. Stuck in my room, grounded. For 3 weeks. So, do I want to continue in this?? Hell no! Does this continued web browsing, social media checking and fleeing help? This …
These months since my last entry have been long, tedious, and trying –but I’m non-destructable so far, I see. In October, we were moving right along. November came up and we marched through, overcoming obstacles like personal space, kind speech, and how to state feelings without fearing rejection. Thursdays popped up over and over, each …
This time of year my body is sending pulses of memory throughout my senses. The memory it holds inside gives way to emotional bursts of rushing, hurrying, making sure, be ready, don’t let down, be prepared.Today is the day, every year, that we joined with family and good times and more bad times were had. …
I was just being a human, being. I was simply being and it was good.
Wow, what a whirlwind!! We’ve been spinning and twirling and not had much time to breathe. Fall rushed into our lives, school began (I started homeschooling again!! Yay!) and I’ve gotten all the little ones and the larger ones enrolled in therapy –we’ve all been through a tough time; I need help mending all of …
I’d like to state for the record that I removed my children from schools outside of the home. I have one child still flip-flopping on the decision, as she goes to a college prep school and loves it there… No more anxiety attacks when the automated mass phone alert from the school calls about a …
Something my family and I have been attempting to use as a tool is Validation. Validating someone gives them a moment to have another person recognize your suffering/fear/excitement. Validation makes a passport useful. Validation gives a person an opportunity to lessen their emotions and endure their hardship just a skosh more. What we’ve been doing …
So, I’m coming up to the 1 month of working, while parenting with positivity. I must confess, before July I had a long, tear filled afternoon talk with the kids. I admitted that I’d tried my best and that if within one month we haven’t made amazing changes to each and every one of us …
The more a physical item is withheld from a child, the more they’ll pine away for it. From my experience, if a child wants something, they’ll go get it even if we say “no.” I’ve learned from first hand that if I can help them receive it, I should let them buy it. If it’s …
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