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Huge insight lately about children and love. Do you think children are born empty of love and our job as parents is to fill them up with love them to make them feel loved ? No! This makes no sense does it? We are so backwards sometimes! Our job as parents is to actually open ourselves [...] I’ve been thinking a lot of conflict lately. More like the good aspect of conflict rather than the fear of it. Unfortunately we live in a culture dominated by fear of conflict, we’ve all backed down from our truth in order to avoid conflict at some point, and then felt badly about it later…realizing we [...] I got the school jitters big time! Just a little coaching needed for how not to get too involved in school politics but stay closely connected to Lula. It’s a tricky thing, this parenting school aged children. I don’t generally like being around large gaggles of parents, but then all of a sudden, I’m there, [...] I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for…. I’m sorry that I…. Apologizing is powerful. Apologizing instantly raises the energy of the interaction, so long as it’s sincere and not meant to manipulate. ’I’m sorry’ is something I pretty much use every day all throughout the day. There is always an instance where I was insensitive, there is [...] Sun shiney days are upon us. As soon as it finally stopped raining and got hot here in Vancouver, my daughter Lula says, ‘I wish it were winter.’ Now let me tell you, from a raised right here in Vancouver gal, this is like blasphemy. We WORSHIP the sun here; if any smidgen of sunlight [...] Here is a tip I’m learning about how to be a better parent. Take care of yourself by taking time for yourself. This means give yourself a good chunk of Time and your Present Awareness, your own Attention. Time to be alone and away from your children. Beg friends, hire a babysitter, ask MOM, or even [...] I wrote this a coupla months ago and for some reason didn’t post it…it’s a good time right now i guess. My mind of late has been on this topic of MEN more specifically Straight Men. They sure are interesting creatures. And in many ways, I do have compassion for all the roles that they [...] Wow, whatta miserable bitch i was before i went on vacation. Quite literally, the day before we left I was on the edge of my seat, hunched over with stomach flu cramps and surfing the web frantically for any information about the tsunami evacuation in Hawaii. Twitter is really the fastest place for second to [...] Ug. Everyone in our family has this wretched cold right now. It’s making for grumpy Gibsons. Max just woke up from a nap and cried for half an hour relentlessly; wouldn’t take any kind of soothing I offered and the only thing that distracted him for a few moments was a noisy train toy, which [...] Hey now now. |
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