In Praise of Play Therapy

When you look at it in black and white like this, it seems so obvious. Of course we want a home focused on healthy development and relationships! But what happens when focusing on healthy development means over-looking disobedience to get to the root of the problem (like not correcting disrespectful talk BEFORE you come close, physically and emotionally) makes you look and feel like you're letting your children “walk all over you?”

THE ALMOST DANCER Turns One!

The first time someone wrote to me about the tears that stained their copy of the book, I thought, “Wow, if it can break open just one person like this, then all the stress, all the fear, all the WORK have been truly worth it.”

A Post about Now

The last 8 months have required such a weird cocktail of survival mode, denial, hope, and Ecclesiastes that my poor little quivering mass of gray matter has itself divided into so many compartments it could qualify as a bona fide 1980s Caboodle.