Authentically Yours
In a piece I sent out several weeks ago, I talked about the building blocks of RIE: respect and authenticity. […]
Read moreConfident Child. Confident Parent.
In a piece I sent out several weeks ago, I talked about the building blocks of RIE: respect and authenticity. […]
Read moreBehaving Requires Thinking This was the subject line of an email I got this morning and I took it as […]
Read moreI don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]
Read moreFirst off, I’m thinking of all my families who will be celebrating the Lunar New Year this Sunday…I’m wishing you […]
Read moreHappy New Year! This is the first RIE in Real Life of 2023, and I haven’t seen a baby or […]
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 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 moreKnock, Knock Who’s There? Interrupting Cow Interrupting Cow W… MOO!!! … … Is that a joke in your house right […]
Read moreIn late January I listened to an excellent webinar, put on by Minding the Baby called The Relational Foundations of […]
Read moreEarlier this week, I watched a video entitled Parenting in a Pandemic with Britta Bushnell, a birth educator many of […]
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 moreIf you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.-Dalai Lama Another beautiful, […]
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 moreI write to discover what I know.-Flannery O’Connor You can make anything by writing.-C.S. Lewis Those two quotations came to […]
Read moreLast night’s all too brief webinar with Dan Siegel was a really excellent cliff’s note version of the book, The […]
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 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 more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read moreWhat follows isn’t what I set out to write about today. A few days ago someone posted a screencapture of […]
Read moreKumiko Akiyama (Kumi) was my student for one year during the second portion of her training to become a RIE […]
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 moreSo, I have to say, I feel that the main idea behind this webinar was to give you strategies for […]
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 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 moreThis has been a hard week for me, and from the emails and texts I’ve gotten, I think it’s getting […]
Read moreRIE classes are a little different than your typical mommy and me class, there’s little you have to do, but […]
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