I’ve got another parent puzzler for you today. Discipline questions are some of the toughest, I think.  Parents of my patients are always asking what they should do to “fix” their back-talking 6 year old, their tantrum-throwing 3 year old…

Summer in our home began with a bang. Literally. I was helping my husband put a piece of dock in the water by our lake camp when I overstepped the end of the dock and plunged into the water. On…

Habit of Happy Mothers #9:

Let go of Fear.

I’ll be the first to admit it: I am a recovering, albeit slowly recovering, obsessive worrier.  When we moms have nothing to worry about, we sometimes make stuff up.  I…

Some of the feedback I’m hearing from Moms about lesson #6 (Make time for solitude) is that it’s impossible.  You name it, I’ve heard it. From “Maybe when my kids are older,” to “Sorry, alone time is a luxury for…

We talked a little about solitude last week, but I think it’s important to answer a question that I know is in the back of your minds, moms:

Is Solitude selfish?

My mother loves people by feeding them. She stuffs them with good food-meat, usually, with potatoes and dark gravy. The kind of gravy that has become a lost art, perhaps because we spend less time cooking, less time learning…