While freaking out about the impending summer holidays, I found this cute 10 Apples Up on Top craft that I thought both Big and Little Brother might get into. And then I thought, Hey! I could be one of those moms. The ones that take pictures inside the Paint Zone and then post to show…
Tag: parenting
Travelling Crazy – a two-, four-, six-year study
It’s easier to travel while sane than crazy. As evidence I produce my two nearly identical holiday circumstances: 3 weeks with in-laws 8 time zones away, plus toddler(s). The first trip, four years ago, resulted in my decision to take anti-depressants for the rest of my life. The second, last month, with double the preschoolers, resulted…
Where does the body feel Unbelonging?
I’m taking a 5-week course called Trauma-sensitive Yoga for Depression and Anxiety at my favourite Vancouver studio, Ocean and Crow. This is a weekly record of my unraveling … and hopefully my knitting back together. In our first class, we learn that every emotion has a corresponding sensation in the body. Conversely, every bodily sensation…
It’s okay to parent your kids to be introverts
I just love this blog I found on the Huffington Post. It’s getting at why I feel so uncomfortable with my child’s report declaring that he’s lacking in public speaking skills. Maybe it isn’t a skill I need to ‘work with him’ on, but a personality trait. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tara-mandarano/introvert_b_9703690.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-parents#
School so-so for snowflakes
For the last few weeks I’ve been stewing over my 5-year-old’s Term 2 report card. He’s only in kindergarten, so there’s no reason for him to 1)Receive a report, or 2) For me to give a shit what it might say. But still. Here it is. The report declares how my son is ‘approaching’, ‘meeting’…
Cure by Ocean
Mental health feels endless sometimes. I never really win. Even after therapy, meds, yoga, meditation, the weepies still come upon me sometimes. When that happens, the answer is a good dose of nature. The wilder the better. The Weepies The night before my husband and I were to take our first childfree weekend away in…
Wendy's House 