Summer is upon us! On the brink of the sweetest and shortest season of the year, many of us look forward to enjoying the trips we’ve planned, getting around to the projects we’ve put off, and hopefully, finding a few moments for the rest our bodies (and minds!) so desperately need. It is a time […]
Archives for May 2016
Parents: Always One Step Behind Kids When It Comes to Social Media
The Boston Globe published a short piece in The Download section, Do you know your kids’s social media handles?” The writer interviewed me and a photographer came to the house on a Sunday morning. That my teenage girls agreed to participate was less about excitement and more of a resigned, “Oh, here goes mom again.” The […]
Growing Kindness in Kids
“Oh. My. God,” I said when my daughter held open her hand. Two baby field mice, barely a day old, squirmed in her palm. Eyes closed. Little feet-paws grasping the air. “That’s exactly what I said,” deadpanned one of her friends peering down at this curious show and tell. The mice looked eerily like human […]
How to Talk to Your Kids About the 2016 Presidential Election
The current presidential race is proving to have some of the most polarizing discourse on record. And a lot of that unsettling rhetoric is affecting the emotional lives of our children. It’s being played out in classrooms, on-line and even on the playground in some cases. What could have possibly prepared us for the election […]
Finding Your Inner Creator
“I can’t draw,” “I’m not good at music,” and “I’m not clever,” are common personal declarations, as if creativity were a characteristic someone either does – or does not – possess. Our culture often makes it seem like there are “the creatives” (think Mad Men and entire departments dedicated to the creative few in advertisement agencies) and […]
