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She’s Leaving Home
A year ago, we were planning our daughter’s graduation party. Now, she’s back with us after a great first year, working full-time to save money before she heads off to Europe for the fall semester. Next summer, the plan is to stay in her college town, 4 hours away, for an internship in her field of choice.
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ICYMI — 8
Most Fridays I try to post interesting things I’ve found while looking around the internets. Here’s this week’s list: I was born in 1970, so my back to school experience was a lot like that described in the first half of Victoria Fedden’s article. Sadly, the back to school experience with my kids is a […]
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ICYMI — 7
Most Fridays I try to post links to interesting things I found while looking around these internets. Here’s this week’s list: Nick Gillespie writes a pretty “on the nose” article in the most recent issue of Time Magazine titled “Millennials are Selfish and Entitled and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame” — of course, I’d like […]
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Being a Kid Ain’t Easy
“When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.” (Lenny Bruce) It’s easy for parents to forget what it was like to be a kid. It’s easy to forget what it’s like being small — feeling as if no part of your life is up to you and having to constantly play […]
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Let Them Go
“How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.” (Robert Cecil-Day Lewis) In order to become their own people, our children must walk away from us in one way or another. In a literal sense, they work their way from crawling to cruising, and before we know it, they’re […]
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Teacher’s Two Cents
“Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” (Anne Sullivan) There’s a fine line between guidance and instruction, and this famous educator helps us understand that difference with one simple word: sympathy. It’s easy to get caught in the trap of instruction, feeling like it’s your duty and obligation to make sure your kids […]
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Back to School Blues-Part 3
Back to School Blues-Part 3 In honor of the most wonderful time of the year – back to school, we are concluding our series entitled “Back to School Blues.” In this series, Kelvin Teamer, ScreamFree Institute Fellow teams up with one of our ScreamFree Certified Leaders, Jessica McKeown to help parents learn how to navigate […]
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Back to School Blues-Part 2
In honor of the most wonderful time of the year – back to school, we are continuing our series entitled “Back to School Blues.” In this series, Kelvin Teamer, ScreamFree Institute Fellow teams up with one of our ScreamFree Certified Leaders, Jessica McKeown to help parents learn how to navigate their way through the minefield […]
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Back to School Blues
In honor of the most wonderful time of the year – back to school, we are beginning a three week series entitled “Back to School Blues.” In this series, Kelvin Teamer, ScreamFree Institute Fellow, teams up with one of our ScreamFree Certified Leaders, Jessica McKeown to help parents learn how to navigate their way through […]
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Back to School Cool
By: Hal Runkel Making the transition from a holiday to the grind of school routines isn’t easy. But it can be ScreamFree. It is easy to lose our cool during the transition back to school, especially considering that it is roughly the temperature of molten lava outside. If you are interested in your child […]