Tag: parenting
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Secrets of Parenting Success
What is the secret formula to raising a happy kid? a successful child? Since we are just making it up as we go along in this household on many days, I certainly don’t have the answer. But we remind ourselves of certain basic principles from time to time. “It’s not our job to toughen our…
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Getting Out of the Way
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” ~ Robert Brault And so it begins . . . Or depending on your perspective, and so it ends. The first of the college acceptance letters arrived in the mail this week and we were…
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Life Lessons: Success Is Letting Go of Perfection
I was disappointed when the sunset did not contain the brilliant colors it had displayed earlier in the week, as I stood on the icy shoreline of Lake Superior with camera in hand. I thought, “Is this all?” Seemingly flat colors, uninteresting cloud formations, no breathtaking moment as the sun dipped below the horizon. But,…
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Family Road Trips: Time Together that Breaks and Bonds
As parents before us always cautioned, “Time goes so fast, enjoy it before it’s gone.” Words of wisdom, and words we tried to heed in between those other moments when every parent feels that a little alone time would not be so bad? So it goes with the family road trip. My recent travel consisted…
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Travel Does Not Always Include Rest and Relaxation
When the 6-hour road trip starts like this — with the mini-van loaded to the hilt, the ski box bursting with multiple tents and camping gear, and five man-sized teen boys along with your husband (over)filling the passenger slots — rest and relaxation are not at the top of the list of attributes for the weekend.…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 