The Biggest Mom Fail of 2017 (So Far!)

Nov 16, 2017 | Parenting

My youngest child is a senior in high school and in the process of looking at colleges. This summer, he did a few college visits with his older brother. At the end of the summer, I brought him and my daughter on a business trip with me to look at another school. We...

What’s Wrong with Relationships?

Oct 26, 2017 | Leadership & Career Development, Relationships

As part of my business, I am a corporate trainer as well as a lead trainer for a fabulous coaching school. I love my work. I train people around leadership skills, communication, and relationships. Yet I find that when I even mention the word relationships, I get...

Your Child in a Word

Oct 19, 2017 | Parenting | 6 comments

Often, when I’m talking to parents of young school-aged children, I ask them to come up with a word or phrase that they hope will describe their child when they are eighteen years old. I do this to help parents look at the end of most of their parenting duties and...

Modeling Friendships for our Daughters

Aug 10, 2017 | Parenting

A friend asked me to write about the topic of female friendships. She noticed that most of her female friends are telling their daughters how to be good friends, yet not modeling those behaviors themselves. It’s an interesting, yet disappointing point of view and one...

Parenting Snapshots: Keepers or Not?

Aug 3, 2017 | Parenting | 1 comment

As I head into my last year of having a child living full-time in my home, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking back on so many parenting moments. Sometimes I’m melancholy and sometimes gleeful, yet I try to think of the parenting snapshots I’d really like to...

College Tips from a Seasoned Mom

Jul 6, 2017 | Parenting

My third child has started the college search as he moves into his senior year of high school. I’ve done the college search with two other children and thus consider myself somewhat of a seasoned expert on the topic. With that hubris in mind, I thought I’d share a few...