This is Hard
I don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]
Read moreConfident Child. Confident Parent.
I don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]
Read moreHappy New Year! This is the first RIE in Real Life of 2023, and I haven’t seen a baby or […]
Read moreIt’s the last Friday of 2022, oh my. Is it just me or did this year simultaneously crawl and fly […]
Read moreAs always, I hope this message finds you well. You may have noticed that my weekly newsletter hasn’t hit your […]
Read moreThis week’s RIE in Real Life is short and personal, but it resonated with me and I think it will […]
Read moreOn this hot and humid (did you catch those clouds in the picture above?) week, my story is less of […]
Read moreWishing you all a very happy Father’s Day. I’m blessed to have had a very special, caring, and involved father […]
Read moreMaybe it is because lately it seems like my life has suddenly sped up, filled up, and is forcing me […]
Read moreToday, I found myself in a small park with a playground. And a LOT of people. By a lot, I […]
Read moreTaking care of difficult feelings. That was the title of the chapter we discussed last week in the Raising Good […]
Read moreFridays and Saturdays are my favorite days of the week…but not for the reason you’re likely thinking. Sure, working a […]
Read moreIn late January I listened to an excellent webinar, put on by Minding the Baby called The Relational Foundations of […]
Read moreMy favorite parenting book is The Parents’ Tao te Ching. If you’ve been in one of my classes or read […]
Read moreEarlier this week, I watched a video entitled Parenting in a Pandemic with Britta Bushnell, a birth educator many of […]
Read moreIf you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.-Dalai Lama Another beautiful, […]
Read moreI called my Grandmother today. It was a quick call, prompted because I wasn’t sure if her electronic picture frame […]
Read moreMy recent piece about trauma was one of my most-responded to articles to date. I expect one of the reasons […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read moreMy health insurance provider gifted me a yearlong subscription to a meditation app. My new yoga app offered a deep […]
Read moreKumiko Akiyama (Kumi) was my student for one year during the second portion of her training to become a RIE […]
Read moreI’m never sure what I’m going to write about on Wednesdays. Normally, this would give me anxiety…just like, as a […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read moreThis has been a hard week for me, and from the emails and texts I’ve gotten, I think it’s getting […]
Read moreFirst published in the Fall 2011 issue of Educaring, RIE’s quarterly newsletter. You can also find this piece in The […]
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