This second child business is really testing out my edges of comfort. Starting out with the context of exhaustion as the foundation to every day, add a splash of 4 year old messes everywhere, a total lack of routine and the rest of life continues to happen. For us that has meant stomach bugs (justRead the Rest…
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Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
Not So Happy Mother’s Day
May 9th, 2011 - 1 Comment
Parenting with the principals and practices of sufficiency have long been an interest of mine, though it all started with my head in the sand. Application was all academic to me, a good idea in theory. Most of the wisdom, I’ve come to discern, comes through a tough moment or day, in which I seeRead the Rest…
Why Have Kids?
December 8th, 2010 - No Comments
The current discourse on parenting seems to follow some particular trends including parenting is hard, parents these days overparent (i.e. helicopter parent), and being a bad mom is ok (whatever bad means). Parents from other generations like to criticize those of us doing the raising these days, and we in turn like to criticize howRead the Rest…
Responsibility and Leadership
June 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Friend and colleague Scott Noelle wrote about “Two Kinds of Responsibility” in his daily reader, in-box delivery. He’s a parenting coach, and his thinking keeps me thinking, about parenting, and today, about leadership. “The word “responsibility” can be confusing because its meaning changes depending on the “active worldview” of the person using it. The oldRead the Rest…
Short of the Enough Line
June 16th, 2010 - No Comments
I am thinking about Gina’s What’s Your Enough Line? (Feb 1st, 2010) conversation as I am preparing my daughter’s bag for a weekend of overnights away from me. I hear my husband say, “That’s enough horsing around now.” And I am feeling like I have had enough parenting today even though they are leaving tomorrowRead the Rest…
Birthday Reflections: Intervening in the Scarcity Spiral
May 19th, 2010 - No Comments
Last week it was my birthday. I had no special plans. I thought I was beyond needing to have a special birthday. After all, I thought, “I’m too old to care.” I’m not three, like my daughter, who co-opts any birthday she can within arms’ reach of a set of candles to blow out. WhenRead the Rest…
Permission to be Adequate
March 17th, 2010 - 1 Comment
This week, my child’s daycare closed for a day of training. I therefore lost a third of my childcare and my biggest day for writing. In the spirit of sufficiency, the North of my compass, I will be transparent and admit that this week, I am aiming for adequate.
Parenting from Sufficiency: Confession of a Guilty Mom
February 17th, 2010 - No Comments
My friend said it well – “Guilty Moms are a dime a dozen” – but I really had no idea all the ways in which I was feeling guilty (one of the top Weapons of Scarcity I use on myself regularly) until I started looking around my life. Take the trip we are going on that involves a six-hour drive one way. I am anxious for my three year old to be in the car for so long. Though I was given lots of advice about ideas to entertain her, I was loath to deal with the preparation. Find a DVD player to borrow, collect some DVDs, go to Target’s $1 area for cheap and new-to-her toys, and make some puppets and other home made activities. I had a deadline this week and wasn’t willing to spend my downtime making stuff. I didn’t want to spend the money; didn’t want to have TV in the car. I just didn’t want to deal.
Canceling the Course: A Break Through Scare City
February 3rd, 2010 - 1 Comment
Leaving Scare City for Sufficiency
