by Nancy | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Huge Transition Moving from childhood to young adult years delivers the transition into puberty. That is hard enough for many children and also their parents. But moving from teen years into adulthood requires another major change in parenting that sometimes is even...
by Nancy | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
The foundation of a child’s security is based on the loving connection between Mom and Dad. Even when the marriage is imperfect, or conflicted, children instinctively want the source of their security to remain intact. Research has shown that the only time kids...
by Nancy | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why Step-Parents Have a Bad Rap! The fairy tales featuring a wicked step-mother or a mean step-father are based somewhat on truth. A birth parent has a rosy glow surrounding their perception of their child. That rosy glow makes it easy to forgive irritations or excuse...
by Nancy | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t like to wait. I suspect that most of us have trouble being patient when waiting. Maybe it was easier 100 years ago when a message could take a year to reach you across the country. And bread would take time to rise. Or waiting for rain for the crops took...
by Nancy | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Forgiveness is at Times Necessary in Any Relationship! Even the most loving of relationships have conflicts or mis-steps or even deliberate cruelties that call for forgiveness. Sometimes you forgive and move on without maintaining that abusive relationship. Most of...
by Nancy | May 7, 2024 | Commitment, Encouragement, Uncategorized
Everything Begins With an Intention The definition of intention is: a thing intended; an aim or plan. Every outcome begins with an intention. You intend to complete a task today. You either complete it or it is completed on another day, but it begins with the...
