Growing Up One Thumb at a Time: Kids and Texting

May 26, 2009

Our kids, and ourselves, are sending an awful lot of texts these days (see piece in today’s New York Times: 
Texting May Be Taking a Toll ).   Parents, teachers and experts are concerned about the effect this may be having, or will later have, on our children.  Kids want to fit in and be part […]

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Joy to the World… and one more thing about the Drugs

May 25, 2009

Happy Memorial Day!  Let’s take a breath and set our intentions to have a happy summer and really enjoy and appreciate our kids, all our kids, this very summer.  Although in this blog we may talk about “problems,” there is a big problem in our parenting zeitgeist at the moment where kids have too often […]

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What, and When, to tell Kids about our Pasts

May 24, 2009

A reader wrote that her ten-year-old has already asked if she’d ever done drugs; she said that she’d managed to “dodge the bullet,” but didn’t want to lie either, wanting him to be mature enough to hear that particular part of her life story.  She asks, “What do do?” * This made me think of […]

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In The Age of the Child, the Parent is a Hero for Our Time

May 23, 2009

While doing for others is a defining characteristic of the hero, it is a quality expected of parents. The essence of leadership is service, but if our children are failing to follow, we must ask ourselves if we are failing to lead.  Every era has its particular sort of hero, such as prophet, king or […]

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Cultivating Creativity

May 22, 2009

If you want to facilitate creativity in your child, focus more on being interested in what they create rather than on praising it. In a study on creativity in children, kids were asked to do artwork and then professional artists blindly judged the work.  The top rated works were then rewarded with prizes.  A few […]

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The Way to Enlightenment is Easy if we don’t Pick and Choose

May 21, 2009

Being our best Selves as parents is a worthy goal that benefits all of our children and the world.  But loving our children and the world as they are, right now, (rather than changing them) is a path to happiness and good feelings that truly last.  And out of a truer seeing and relating, may […]

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Teaching Kids How To Make Friends

May 20, 2009

Firstly, let’s set our intention.  One possibility:  we dedicate this writing/reading to loving the world as it is (and aligning with it) in the service of a specific child, or children, that you the reader now consciously choose. Individuation, or growing “up” toward recognition of all the parts of ourselves, hinges on feeling solid enough within ourselves […]

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Our Shadow is behind us when we face the Sun

May 19, 2009

Firstly, hello and thanks for visiting.  Welcome!   Secondly, I set my intention today for this blog to be of benefit to you, the reader, but also to parents, and their children, who may never read this blog.  Please join me in this intention, or set a different one.  The reason I say this is that I […]

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Parenting IS Yoga

May 18, 2009

Most Monday mornings I do yoga class with Matt.  I’m usually the only guy in there beside Matt, but the energy is so wonderful that I wonder where all the other guys might be who are missing out.  The room is small, however, and I was the last one to squeeze into our packed space […]

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A Good Dream, A Good Sign

May 17, 2009

The world is a strange and wonderful place, it is alive and always speaking with us… if only we learn how to quiet our minds and listen with our hearts.  With this blog I have found the courage and love to come out of my extraversion in the service of my deeper Self, of our […]

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