Providing Hope

Providing Hope

‘Hope’ is an important word to a parent. “I hope my child understands.” “I hope my child gets good grades.” “I hope my child will be able to get into a non-bat-crap-crazy college or better yet, a trade school.” “I hope that smell of dog crap isn’t my child walking...
Staying Motivated

Staying Motivated

The challenges of being a parent don’t always come directly from your children. Many times it’s the outside forces and the variables that wear us down, put a pebble (or ten) in our shoes, or flat out hit us in the face. Having to deal with variables makes staying...
Creating Expectations

Creating Expectations

I hope by now that you’re seeing not only the pattern I’m laying out, but the connections—how each of these subjects build upon the previous one. But what’s special about this point in our parenting adventure, is the clarifying experience of watching how our WHY...
Keeping Your Focus

Keeping Your Focus

If there’s one thing you count on in life, it’s distractions. Life and society tend to fill every crevice of our attention with something. A place to go, a person to talk to, something to do…but when I stop to think about it, are these things the MOST important things...