Whole Child Development
My eight year-old and I were snuggled on his top bunk when he started to talk about classmates whose parents were divorced. Someone has two moms and one dad. Someone else lives in a different house on the weekends. Another says Dad lives in a different state.
I have this internal alarm that goes off whenever I haven’t seen or heard my toddler for 60 seconds. The realization usually startles me and I wonder off thinking, “Oh great. What is he doing?” Usually I find him emptying the soil from the potted plants, scrubbing the toothbrush drawer with a (wet) toilet brush, or exploring the markers (which are thankfully washable) at the art table….and on every adjoining wall. It’s a tough job to keep up with kids, and all the things they DO.
Remember my brilliant niece? She’s now hitting the university grind as a future engineer. For one of her classes she was asked to create a mission statement as a learner. What she came up with inspired me, and I hope it does the same for you: [Read more…]
Faige Kobre’s guest post here about the therapeutic nature of art was a reminder to me to be more intentional about pulling out art supplies to provide an invitation for my boys to create. I’m not sure what’s been holding me back, but it certainly wasn’t their interest!
I frequently have people ask me about their children’s behavior. It often follows the pattern, “My child does _______. What should I do?” Now I’m not criticizing them for asking questions this way, I’ve found myself asking questions the same way.
Wednesday has become my day for sharing quick thoughts, quotes, or hot topics. Today, as I thought of a quote that would be appropriate to this solemn date, I immediately thought of these lines from the novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, by Rachel Joyce:
As I read through many accounts of troubled boys, such as those in the book Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
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