What is funny to me is that overwhelm is sneaky. It never shows up until things are too much to handle. Personally, I have an all or nothing impulse that shows up when I make lists or have plans. I want to set myself up for success, and what I have learned over the years, especially this last year is that life has to flow! I’ve always been told that I am a sensitive person, and so I think that part of me does sometimes get stuck in the spiral of “maybe I am too sensitive to h

Modern day children’s books and movies teach us that siblings are supposed to be the ones who are there for us through thick and thin. No matter what happens, they will be the ones to support us. If there is a falling out, they will be able to see AND understand our side of the story. At the end, the conflict will work itself out and they again will be the person fighting alongside us. In A Series of Unfortunate Events The Baudelaire children have each other’s support thro

I am sitting in my office staring at a list of “71 Kindergarten Readiness Skills”. As I scan the sheet, even I am intimated by the amount of information required to start kindergarten! Matching, alphabet identification, sorting, shapes and patterns fill the list. Yet, for all the readiness I see very little about social interaction and NOTHING about emotions. I look across to a deflated and scared mom whose child is struggling to reach the goals. As children progress and deve