First Time Around

This may sound familiar, but the first time around something new, it might take a bit to learn it. How can you help them learn? Repeat the instructions again. Demonstrate while explaining each step. Give them the help guide. Show Read More …

Make It Look Easy

You can make it look easy, but that doesn’t mean that you should. Life is hard. Some tasks are challenging. They don’t know what you know. Learning new things takes time. Life changes and then, it can be new again. Read More …

Free of the Past

Some people wish that they could be free of the past, just the bad things of course. Whatever it is…just let it go. The things that keep us up at night. The memories from our childhood – that while shaping Read More …

Remember Back When

It is hard for some of us to recall, but remember back when you could not do something, or didn’t realize the importance of being able to do it either? Parallel parking. It takes time. Let’s not beep at them. Read More …

PSAT Nightmares

This week, and this weekend, begin the PSAT nightmares for both teens and their parents. For different reasons of course. Standardized testing, apparently was invented over a hundred years ago, something I would not have thought, but read (recently) from Read More …

Little By Little

Progress being made each day, each week and every month – little by little. Now, not today, but only a few tomorrows from now, all at once is how it will feel. Our baby…who isn’t really – she is a Read More …

Help Yourself

Sometimes you just have to decide to help yourself.  There are plenty of reasons: to take care of you. to be an advocate for your wishes. to become something more. to learn something valuable. to relax. to eat first. to Read More …