Tag: parenting
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Protected: Of The Inner Child, Mothers and Compassion …
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Protected: Of Mothers, Understanding, and BeComing Present …
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Of Blogposts, Children and Immortality …
I have not written a blog post in over a year. Life’s been busy. Our youngest, now a freshman in high school, needed my attention. I needed to know that I was giving her the best of me, and the time she required in trying to grow up. Navigating the world of childhood is not…
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Of Riding Ellipticals, Counting Minutes, and The Challenge of Parenting …
Like the teacher in my psychology program who said that the hardest thing about parenting was the time required, I find that I never have enough. Mothering three daughters, seeing to my husband, or rather attending our marriage, along with my work as a psychotherapist, and writing novels proves daunting. I count minutes in much…
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Of Fissures and Cracks, Parenting, and The Laboratory of Home …
A mother of three ages, 24, 20 and 13, all daughters, I find myself, a wife of thirty years, psychotherapist, oftentimes growing cynical, not so much with the children of our culture and society, but having lost patience with the parents, or should I say, adults, who suppose themselves experts at everything and therefore question…
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Protected: Of Love, Nurturing and Outliers…
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Of Actions, Integrity and Trusting Our Choices…
In stating, “…mothers and daughters cannot serve as best friends to the other…,” Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer add in an excerpt from Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship , that the …basic question… a mother must answer is: “…Do you trust your daughter to be an…