Before Covid, I was a Yes Parent
It’s nice to sit down and write again. The story of my pause is like millions of others over the past two years, with added variations. But what I do […]
Category Archives: Children & Food
Healthy Snacks of Least Resistance
This is for my good friend Katie over at The Graceful Athlete, who is incredible and rocks it out every day. Incidentally for anyone who’s interested, she does online Barre […]
Real Cooking with Kids (Where to Start)
So I love to cook with my kid; we have a blast and I enjoy sharing that time with her while also being productive (making a meal). You may now […]
Backwards Meals
We are, as a society, preventing ourselves from starting our days off right– or at least better– because of some random idea about what breakfast should be. When you think about it, that’s kind of ridiculous.
Dinner, the absolute wrong time of the day for us to force anything on anyone.
The easy -You Can Do Anything- trap.
Our lives aren’t single-tracked– we have parallel lines running all the time. These lines each satisfy a need we have, and when combined make up our whole person.
What we need to teach our kiddos, and each other, is the strength to look at all of our lines running parallel, acknowledge which ones we need, and pursue those instead of killing ourselves pursuing all of them simultaneously… or just one of them singularly.
Peel & Cleaver 