In the absence of love and belonging, there is always suffering. – Brene Brown If you’ve ever been excluded, you know what a powerful and negative impact it has on the soul. If you were excluded as a child, you…
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Dear Elementary PTA President (a.k.a. Superhero in Mom Jeans – or Dad Sneakers), Schools wouldn’t be a community without you and we need strong communities to help raise resilient, happy kids. Thank you for stepping up. Without your efforts to…
Remember Harold Kushner’s best-selling book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People? Sometimes those “people” are our children. It would be wonderful if we lived in a state of nirvana but, unfortunately, we have to function in the real world…
Why You’re a Superhero Fact: Like a human x-ray machine, you can read your child’s mind and see their heart. You’ve memorized every feature of their face. You are the expert in how they’re feeling and behaving. You know when…
Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet. — Simon Sinek Recently, I had the pleasure of listening to my son give a speech about leadership. In…
Please share this with anyone and everyone you know who was stunned, shocked and saddened about the Aurora shootings. We can help. If we can ban together and raise $700,000 for Karen Klein, the bullied school bus monitor, we can also…
I couldn’t bring myself to write a post over the weekend. I was stunned and sickened and saddened at what happened in Aurora, Colorado. I’m sure you were, too. Like everyone else, I’m not sure how to process it. The…
Yesterday on Twitter, my son had posted, “A fond farewell to my mom’s ‘White House buddy.’” That’s how I found out that Maurice Sendak had died. I met him years ago when I worked for Shirley Katzander. And although part…
Is love alive? For kids who are made to feel worthless by peers, siblings or sadly from some adults in their lives, they may not think so. This message is simple. We all have what it takes — two ears,…
Public schools in the northeast start back to school today. Now that almost everyone in the country has started a new school year, it’s a good time to celebrate the National Be Nice to the New Kid Day. Of course,…