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There are active ways to support family life that we each know works right now in our families. As we transitioned from our home to a hotel to another country, another hotel before coming into a new home there were lots of things we just weren’t able to maintain. But there were many things we just knew if we hung… View Post
Savoring Slow with Shawn Fink of Abundant Mama is the inspiring and uplifting podcast for you this week. This show is for intentional parents and those on the road to intentional parenting looking to slow down and redefine the pace of family life. Shawn shares tips and ideas that help you decide what you want for your family. Never one… View Post
Dear Creative and Sensitive Mom, Lots of times other families look happy and fancy. It’s true there are happy and fancy families around. Just because your family or mine isn’t happy and fancy at this point in time, doesn’t mean family can’t be happier. I can be happier. You too. At this time of year probably more than any other we’re… View Post
Routine and order. Routine and order. But what about curiosity, perspective and questions in our family? We need a place for this too. In this podcast, we’re taking a subject that makes us all a little nervous- trying something new with our family. We don’t know if it will work? the reaction? Yet we want to raise children that… View Post
Getting the family working together can seem like an uphill task. As part of the back to school series, we are looking at ways to have a happier school year for everyone. Around the middle of the last school year you were doing a lot, maybe even too much. The children are growing and so should their responsibility within the… View Post
Connecting with our children when they come home is probably one of the biggest challenges when we all get together. There’s a lot going on at once. If there’s more than one child then multiple pulls often in different directions. Add to that the need for speed to get somewhere or the overwhelming tiredness it’s all too easy for… View Post
Family values help glue our families together. Yet we don’t often talk about it openly within our family or to our children. Our children learn our values from seeing what we do and watching others. It’s not until we see something happen right before our eyes that we realize that maybe we haven’t shared this value very well. A… View Post
Remember that time when you just knew you were right and you were little. How do you disagree with your parents appropriately? During the heat of the moment the subject of the argument gets lost and as a parent we focus on the sass, anger, rudeness and sarcasm. But don’t you remember that sometimes you knew you were… View Post
How we use media, screens and devices creeps up on many of us. Devices multiply and soon there are a bunch of portable devices to manage. Before going back to school I love to go back over what worked and what didn’t work so well the previous school year. Doesn’t have to be long or written but there are usually… View Post
