Want some very straightforward and easy-to-apply methods for connecting with your children when your first inclination is to scream or lecture or punish? Sandy Blackard’s Say What You See approach offers a way of connecting and respecting your children while setting boundaries both parents and kids can live with. Her book SAY WHAT YOU SEE . . . → Read More: Sandy Blackard Interview: Part 3
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 Leave a comment  Posted on August 10th, 2012 in Discipline, Parenting, Self Care, Single Parenting  gentle discipline, mindful parenting, sandy blackard, say what you see, single parenting, tornado parenting My son, our three cats, and I have been on summer vacation for a week. I find myself thinking a lot about being productive and repeatedly giving myself permission to rest. Usually people talk about a work/life balance but I can turn anything into work—parenting, working for money, house work, working towards goals, learning new . . . → Read More: Balancing Productivity & Rest 2 comments Posted on July 10th, 2012 in Parenting, Self Care, Travel human being vs. human doing, life balance, mindful parenting, slow family living, summer vacation with kids, the busy trap In Gretchen Rubin’s personal happiness project, she defines Personal Commandments. Commandments have connotations I’m not sure I want to take on. So what to call mine? Uber-resolutions? Goals for myself that extend beyond an aim for that particular day (exercise, enough sleep, etc). Rules for life? Core values? I finally settled on Guiding Principles. When . . . → Read More: Guiding Principles Leave a comment Posted on April 29th, 2012 in Happiness, Self Care guiding principles, happiness project, personal commandments, rules for life My happiness project officially ended a couple of weeks ago. Shall I announce, now, that I am happy happy happy? Well, I am. Sometimes. In January of 2010, I started working through Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read . . . → Read More: Happy Happy Joy Joy Leave a comment Posted on April 12th, 2012 in Divorce, Happiness, Self Care, Single Parenting how to be happy, self care, self improvement, surviving divorce Spring break didn’t turn out at all as I’d planned. We were supposed to go to Chicago to visit friends. Then I got a phone call. “I think I just really f-ed up.” My friend went on to explain she’d been to a pox party and her kids should be getting chicken pox the day . . . → Read More: To Pox or Not to Pox? 6 comments Posted on March 20th, 2012 in Health, Parenting chicken pox party, chicken pox vaccine, increasing rate of shingles, should I vaccinate for chicken pox? We all live by a set of beliefs that inform how we see ourselves, see others, and function in the world. These beliefs may be helpful, contradictory, conscious or unconscious, but they turn into rules we live by: people are good (or bad), life is a struggle (or I won’t have to deal with than . . . → Read More: What Are the Rules You Live By? Leave a comment Posted on February 24th, 2012 in Divorce, Mindfulness, Organizing, Self Care becoming more conscious, decluttering our minds, rules you live by Some people I know think Valentine’s Day is a schmaltzy Hallmark holiday not worth celebrating, but I love it. My mom’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day so we grew up celebrating it with Texas Chocolate Cake topped with red hots. We had hearts all over the house, which is probably why they’re my favorite shape. . . . → Read More: Valentine’s Day is for Love Leave a comment Posted on February 15th, 2012 in Activities, Divorce, Holidays, Parenting happiness, valentine crafts, valentine's day after divorce, valentine's day with kids I took a bath in cat urine this weekend. Hopefully needless to say, this was not intentional. I put lavender bubble bath in the tub as I ran the water. It smelled lavender-y when I got in. But the water was too cold, so I drained some, added more hot, and was still soaking in . . . → Read More: A New Window 4 comments Posted on December 15th, 2011 in Divorce, Holidays, Listen to This, Parenting, Single Parenting divorced at the holidays, holiday music, single parenting, when a door closes a window opens My son turned five a couple of weeks ago and it’s sent me into a bit of a tailspin. Okay, maybe not just his turning five. We had a Halloween party, a birthday, house-guests with small children for a week. We got a cat who didn’t eat for the first few days, then got an . . . → Read More: Turning Five Do you ever get the feeling that you are exactly where you’re supposed to be? I was lucky enough to experience that twice this past week. The first time was when we got our new cat. The second time was when I walked into the Shambhala Center on Wednesday night. They have open meditation from . . . → Read More: Sit Still Leave a comment Posted on November 13th, 2011 in Spiritual, Writing Austin Shambhala Center, how to meditate, self care, showing up |
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