Hello Awake Parent Readers, Just wanted to let you know… Baby Julia was born on August 2, 2010 at around 3 PM coming in at 7 lb 13 oz. Both mom and baby are doing well. Pictures to come…. Jill and I sent out a message last week asking for your warm pre-congratulations. Thank you…
“Nobody’s perfect”, right? Well, I’m not so sure. I think there’s actually a kind of perfection in imperfection. I tend toward the idea that there’s some sort of plan, or fate, or something that drives us all to be exactly who and how we are. Some people call this force God, or the Universe, or…
Jill says goodbye, and reflects on her time with Awake Parent; Shelly has some big news and muses on the future.
Happy Gregorian New Year! Whatever calendar we may observe as part of our many traditions, the popularity and ubiquity of the Gregorian New Year offers us a time to reflect, regroup and realign with what we want most. This past October, as part of my year-long program studying Nonviolent Communication (NVC) mediation, I went on…
In his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey enjoins us to “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” As hard as this may be to remember to do with other adults sometimes, I find it even harder to remember to do with my son. Recently I got my son and his stepbrother…
Sometimes the best and simplest solutions are the hardest to remember. I’m not sure why that is. Back in the days when Shelly and I lived in the same city and taught classes “real-time,” one of the things we brought up frequently was that in real life, you don’t really get “rewinds,” where you can…
I want to appreciate you, just for being the parent you are. Will you join me? Would you please take a moment…even a fraction of a second…right now…and appreciate yourself as a parent? Seriously. How often do we take time–even a nanosecond–to appreciate not what we’re doing, but simply that we are being the grown-up…
Shelly, the beautiful bride, and Kevin, her handsome husband! We’re taking a break from our regularly schedule series of blogs to say…congratulations to Shelly, my co-leader of AwakeParent, and her new husband, Kevin! I was honored to attend their wedding this past weekend in Bend, Oregon, a more beautiful city than I could…