Tag: family

Musings on the curious child…and keeping secrets.

Click here for a bit on parenting, art and curiosity…and a little bit of history: Musings on the curious child…and keeping secrets..

 

Love her for who she is, not what you want her to be…

A little romantic advice from the mistress of romance: Love her for who she is, not what you want her to be….

 

And a lot of common sense thrown in there too!

 

With all the debate on having kids and working my answer is…

I’m going to vent:

I strongly believe that kids who get out in the world and experience the community of other children do better than kids who are isolated at home with only their mothers and siblings. I feel that all kids need to be socialized, just like dogs, or they’ll never be able to catch up once they get to grade school. I also am sick and tired of people who post crap saying that mothers who work don’t do a good job. Working moms do a damn good job are closer to their kids than anyone who writes that crap could ever know, and the children of working mothers are proud of their moms. I don’t know a single working mom who doesn’t think of her kids 24/7, put them first and spend every free moment with those kids. It is about quality with your kids and bringing them up to be strong and happy adults (in my opinion.)

Every family is different and every choice is different – but make sure your choices are educated choices and not just a jacked up gut reaction misguided myths. And stop trying to crap on working moms and the hard choices we have to make.

We’re not going to stop working so deal with it or shut the F up.

For a brief article that I approve see: With all the debate on having kids and working my answer is….

Art, love and the romantic soul

The closest I get to a true religious experience is when I’m in the presence of art.Recently while at the De Young Museum in San Francisco for the Girl with the Pearl Earring Exhibit my daughter smiled and asked “are you going to have a religious experience today?”My answer was “yes I am.” And I did.

via Art, love and the romantic soul.

 

Taking Care of Our Elders

The reblogged link is to a work of fiction – but it rings true for all of us who are looking after elders and care takers. Especially during this Holiday season and after, remember those who are older and perhaps alone. Help them, do things with them, engage their minds, hearts and souls. They are our treasures.

Click on this link for the entire story: Taking Care of Our Elders – Vampire Style.

Sit and chat for a while – the importance of talking and listening to your teens

Childhood is a time to prepare out children to be adults – especially the teen years. I’ve always thought that THIS is the time you need to spend the most time with your kids. They are now, more than ever learning about the real world and issues they’ll have to face.

They’ll learn that life isn’t fair. They’ll learn that jerks grow up to be jerks. They’ll learn that there are brown- -nosers and teacher’s pets and people who are going to be less than nice. They’ll learn about game players and liars and all of the other people that might end up as their coworkers someday.
But they will also learn that they can make a difference through their actions and words. They’ll meet the best friends they’ll ever have – and still have those friend when they are 100 years old. They’ll be inspired by remarkable teachers (I’m thinking on one History teacher). They’ll be curious. They’ll discover new and wonderful music. They’ll laugh like they invented laughing. And they’ll know joy like no others.

So now it the time to talk to your kids. Now is the time to LISTEN.

For the rest of the article go to my sister blog:

Click here: A reminder to talk to our children, especially our teens. Sit and chat for a while.