Do you sometimes feel like you live in a fishbowl? Especially as a parent of young kids, your every move feeling scrutinized by glaring eyes in the grocery store. Or your teenager’s every post on social media a reflection of how you parent? For many of us, the peanut gallery just adds insult to injury…. View Post
Dear Young Momma, Quiet the Mean Voices
You know the voices. The constant stream of what you’re not doing right or could be doing better. I don’t think I’m the only one who hears them. The voices leave me feeling inadequate, incapable, shameful, anxious, searching, spinning, spiraling. They come at me 24/7—most often from a small rectangular screen. We voluntarily stare at… View Post
“That’s So Unreasonable!” Setting Parental Limits on Technology—without the Backlash
Let’s be honest, we all do stupid things. And unless we’re teenage boys out on a Friday night with nothing to do, our intentions most likely were not to do that stupid act. I remember when I was a teenager. I had a 1984 Camaro my parents bought new and then gave to me as… View Post
The Legacy We Leave
Do you think about your legacy? Does it impact how you live today—in the here-and-now? How you treat others? Where you spend your time? What your priorities are? I’ve been thinking about mine lately. For my entire working career I’ve been counseling, mentoring, and studying those in the Millennial generation. And the consistent cry… View Post