Search Results for: intelligent
Stop Setting Yourself Up for Failure: Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
Parents, are your teens setting themselves up for failure with their self-talk? Self-talk, aka your inner voice, is the way you speak and dialogue with yourself. Self-talk shapes your beliefs about who you are, how the world works, and where you fit into it all. As a certified family life coach, I’ve seen how teens…
Best Dog Breeds for Busy Families (And Why They Thrive)
Despite the school runs, crowded schedules, work, and laundry loads where kids are always a mom's main priority, busy families, especially those managed by mothers, have a lot on their plates. Therefore, getting a dog for the family might seem like an extra duty. However, the reality is that the right dog could totally change…
Amidst Racism, A Beautiful Letter To A Husband From His Wife
Amidst Racism, A Beautiful Letter To A Husband From His Wife
Autism and the In-Between Parenting
Autism and the In-Between Parenting What is the In-Between Parenting? It’s a term I made up for the following situation. I have an eighteen-year-old with autism. He’s about to graduate high school and attend a local community college in the fall. We do not have a conservatorship with him. What is a conservatorship? It is…
An Adult with Autism
An Adult with Autism I’m reporting on new territory for our child, and for us. Our son turned eighteen this week. He’s officially an adult. Are we freaked out? Yeah, a little. Boy, it feels like that went by fast. Are we excited? Of course. We feel we raised a thoughtful, kind, intelligent young man.…