My conversations with my sister have a pattern. They always begin with me answering her list of questions (she’s a journalist). Once the...

When you get into the car and realize you’ve forgotten your phone, you head back into the house trying to remember where you set it down....

When you make a fresh salad, some of the best parts fall to the bottom of the bowl. All you see are the greens, but you know that there...

As I support parents to shift out of anxiousness and trying to control their teens' lives, I've come to believe that consistent practice...

I rarely meet a parent who denies having felt some guilt about how they’ve raised their kids. I hear things like, “I wasn’t there enough....

Trying to be prepared is part of becoming a parent. Extra diapers, extra snacks and leaving 15 minutes early. Now that our kids are...

Parenting teens and young adults can be so messy. You realize what you’re doing isn’t working but how do you know when it’s time to step...

“When my daughter gets anxious, I can feel her stress and fear as if it were my own. My chest gets tight and my breath gets shallower. I...

There are things we can’t undo, like picking the petals off a daisy or burning the cookies. Done is done. And there are things we can...

You and I have this in common: we’re learning and developing ourselves so we can support and love our children better. As we do this...

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ~ William Wordsworth It's difficult for parents to find the right place to process...

It’s a funny thing about humans that we live in an ever-changing world and yet we desire – often deeply crave – constancy and certainty. ...

Raising a teenager requires an elasticity of the soul. They stretch us in ways we didn't know we were capable of stretching and we never...

Every parent is a unique and fascinating individual. A miraculous amalgamation of molecules and magic, flesh, bones, light and love. And...

Your young adult child is gradually moving out into the world on their own. Of course, you have fears. How could you watch the news and...

Some things are elusive: a completely accurate memory, the scent of the night-blooming cereus (what was the name of that novel?), the...

My track record with house plants is pretty dismal. I forget about them and under-water. Or I worry about forgetting them and over-water....

When I was growing up, there was, in our house, a clear delineation between acceptable and shameful behaviour. Between being a good...

I don't give too much of my attention to social media and the internet. There’s so much false, unhelpful, damaging, coercive, caustic,...

“It’s excruciating to watch when my daughter encounters an obstacle,” said Terri. “She finds out she’s forgotten about an English...

Have you ever asked your teen or young adult child to change their behaviour – stop leaving a mess in the kitchen, badgering their...

When I was in my 20s, at a time when I was trying to connect more deeply with a boyfriend, I had a powerful dream. I saw myself on a...

Differences of opinion are part to any relationship, including those with our teen and young adult children. And sometimes ongoing...

A volcano doesn’t choose where and when to erupt, nor upon whom. It is a force of nature, a built-up pressure that the earth can no...