Fuel Your Inner Drive
Courtesy of The CBS Sunday Morning show, this is the best 2 minutes and 41 seconds way to spend your day today. The setting: a basketball coach, a team manager, the team, an opposing team player and an auditorium filled with respect and adulation. The best drama and INSPIRATION you can get in under three [...]
The other day I was watching a morning news program and heard this from the interviewee: “As a woman would you rather be respected or liked? I chose to be respected….” Oh for goodness sake, why can’t we be both? I am very aware of the glass ceiling – and also of the double standard. [...]
It’s back to school, time! [Woo hoo! Wooo! Yeah! HUZ-ZAH!] I am so, so excited. I will miss the kiddos [and the incessant bickering]. But Iet’s face it, by the end of the summer everyone wants their space [well mainly me, due to the incessant bickering]. Before I get all caught up in the beautiful [...]
Sitting here at the computer in my Snuggie, I’m thinking about the advice I recently gave my son. Some kids were not being nice at recess. He asked me what he should do. I told him to walk away and play by himself and that it was perfectly fine to play alone—he didn’t need to [...]
I am a busy working mother with four small children all under the age of 7 years. At times, I certainly feel the “mom guilt” when my children are asking me to stay and play as I’m heading off to a meeting. And unlike many working mothers I know, I’m lucky that my husband is [...]
Seven on my night stand. Five on the floor. What am I counting? Parenting books. Wait, there’s more. One, two, three….four on the bookshelf. Oh, look, there’s another six on the top shelf of my closet! I counted. A whopping twenty-two parenting books in all (full disclosure: I haven’t looked under my bed yet. Likely [...]
