I was upset. I was seething on the inside. My husband and I just had a disagreement. I passionately began to express why I disagreed with his stance. My words began to tumble out and I barely took a breath. My eyes were blurry with tears as I began to release the disappointment behind my anger. Eventually, I paused talking and looked at my husband expectantly.
Welcome to Holland
WELCOME TO HOLLAND
by Emily Perl Kingsley
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help
people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would
feel. It's like this......
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a
bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David.
The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go.
Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy!
I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."
How to Teach Your Child the Importance of “Less Is More” in a Society of Overconsumption
We live in a world of excess. In general, we have more than the generations before us.
Thanks to technology, we expect most things to be done for us instantly. We don’t like to wait too long.
Unfortunately, that excessive lifestyle is something many people unknowingly pass on to their children. What’s worse, the more our kids expect, the less content they are likely to be. Is that what you want them to learn?
Developing Thanksgiving Traditions: Thoughtful Gestures You Can Teach Your Child
Almost every family has their own Thanksgiving traditions that are celebrated each year.
You may not even realize how special it is when you wake up early to start cooking, turn on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, or prepare a big breakfast. But these little moments can be big for your family. They create memories that will last a lifetime.
When thinking about the theme of the holiday, gratitude should really be at the center of most of those traditions.
12 Mistakes of Modern-Day Parenting
Parenting is not an easy task and there is not a rule book for how raise a child. Of course, every parent make mistakes; however, developing awareness of our parenting mistakes is the key to charting a different course and raising successful kids. I hope that by sharing this infographic created by Sundance Canyon Academy that you can re-examine your current role as a parent and determine if you have made or are currently making any of these common mistakes.
How to raise successful kids without overparenting
As parents we often become consumed with the idea that every moment of childhood must be geared towards society’s definition of “success.” However, creating such high expectations and micromanaging our children can result in the demise of their lives and have the opposite effect of what we were hoping to achieve. I would like to share this TED talk by Julie Lythcott-Haims about how to raise our kids so that they can thrive and blossom into their best selves.
The Imperfect Parent
Strengthening the Parent-Child Relationship: Building A Bond That Will Last a Lifetime
It’s Thursday night and your car spins into the parking lot of the school for your child. You hurriedly park, grab your car keys, and rush out the car into the school building. You speed walk into your child’s classroom, grab them by the hand, and then rush back into the car to fight the evening traffic. Once you arrive home it is like a mad dash – homework, dinner, wiping of noses and/or tears, cleaning up after everyone, brief moments of adult conversation (if you’re lucky), baths, story time, and then bed. As you sink into the chair or your bed later that night, you may wonder whether you actually spent any quality time with your child or rather did you just participate in a human assembly line of child rearing tasks?
