Posted on April 6, 2015
Last year I purchased the coolest looking toaster I’d ever seen—the Magimix. Loaded with super-fancy features and frills, my toaster toasts both bread and bagels to perfection. Last night, Navin, my electronically savvy 24–year-old son—needing a carb boost before his workout—decided to slip in a second piece of bread while the first one was toasting. Much to his dismay, it ended in the wrong slot, right on top of the heating coil. Within seconds, we had a tiny, smelly…
Posted on March 30, 2015
Many parents have survived that dreaded call from the school alerting them to something their child did that they wouldn’t approve of. Whether it was stealing another student’s pencil, talking too much in class, or picking a fight with another child on the playground, there are moments where you just want to throw up your hands and wonder where you went wrong. While these might seem minor, there are some parents who have also received the “cheating” call. When you…
Posted on March 23, 2015
Kids will be kids. They are going to fight and push the limits. That’s what they are supposed to do. It’s how they learn and grow. Didn’t we do that to our parents? Didn’t we mentally and emotionally ambush them sometimes? That’s life. We go through the emotion commotion because we have expectations. We expect our kids to behave well all the time. But that is our shortcoming, not theirs. For their part, our kids expect only love and happiness from us….
Posted on April 27, 2015
Think about the last time you received a great big hug from someone. It might have been your spouse, your parent, or maybe your child? How did it make you feel? Warm? Safe? Loved? We often hear stories of premature babies who have grown and flourished while connecting skin-to-skin with their mothers. Many children who have emotional issues benefit greatly with hug therapy. When depression strikes, or you have that sense of being overwhelmed, a hug can raise your oxytocin…
Posted on March 16, 2015
At a recent yoga class, my teacher, Wendy Hassenpflug from Vayu Yoga, mentioned Dr. Albert Mehrabian’s “7%-38%-55% Rule,” which states that when it comes to communicating our feelings, words account for 7 percent of what is received, our tone of voice delivers 38 percent, and our non-verbal expressions (body language and facial expressions) the other 55 percent. In other words, for effective and meaningful communication about emotions, our words, tone of voice, and body language and facial expressions need…
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