Three things your kids need today
I’ve been counseling children and families for 28 years. In the last decade, I’ve never seen anything soar like the rates of anxiety among kids. As…
Dear pre-COVID me
Dear pre-COVID me, I couldn’t have warned you if I tried. Words just don’t do justice to how quickly things changed in just a few months. One…
We still have to do summer?
The only title I’ve held longer than mom is educator. Beginning as a bilingual teacher, I stepped into my first classroom in the Spring of 1995…
A 9/11 birth and a coronavirus graduation: How God redeems all he allows
Boy, do I hate snakes. As a boy momma, I have had to accommodate a few of them over the years. But as a rule, I am not a fan. I know everything…
Missed milestones in the midst of mayhem
I have never hated—I mean really hated—a word before. A word is simply a word, it has no real power. But this word, I hate it. While I had heard…
A glimpse into life after COVID-19
How might life after COVID-19 look? I could speculate. I could research and provide countless references linked to the trajectory of future…
What is Your Posture During a Crisis?
Like everyone else in the world, I’ve been holed up with my family for more than a month. For kicks, my teens and tweens started listing phrases…
The Emergence of Family as the Victor
It has been said that time heals all things. As a seventy-year-old father and grandfather, I disagree. Time alone cannot heal. It cannot heal the…
Counseling Conversations | Parenting in a Pandemic
Just as much as we are processing all that is going on in the world, they are processing too. Here’s the question, how can I help my kids process…
