FRIDAY WISDOM is based on Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (The Special Moms’ Edition) Calm Card #41 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Card (Special Moms’ Edition) Today I drew the Calm Card. What better way to end the week, then with a reminder to find ways to bring calm into our lives and into our children’s…

Several months back Caidin was repeatedly getting in trouble in school. Not capital ‘T’ trouble, mind you, but he was being asked to leave meeting or being spoken to by at least one teacher every day. He would get in the car and have that hangdog mopey look that I knew meant the day didn’t…

It can be hard to remember what it was like to be a little kid. If we consider the experience purely from a size perspective alone, we might be able to remember somewhat. Just the fact that the world is built for adults; chairs, drinking fountains, public bathroom stalls, the checkout counter; the world can…

Our son Caidin, who is eight, loves all things Pokémon. He has the cards, he has the DS Game, he watches it on television and when his best friend Sam comes over they make up Pokémon games to play on the trampoline. At first I was resistant to the whole Pokémon thing. But soon I…

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