Are You Trying To Control Too Much????

  A lot of parenting involves managing the lives of others and making sure things get done. There are a lot of expectations about what should happen and when.  You may also have expectations about what your child should be like or how your child should behave and think. Sometimes this gets in the way […]

Required Paternity Leave??

A French think tank, the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économique (the French Economic Monitoring Center, acronym OFCE) recently suggested that new fathers be required to take paternity leave. Their reasoning is interesting and touches on two areas. From an economic perspective, they suggest that requiring fathers to take time off would help reduce the impact […]

Reflections on the Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is a time of quiet and waiting, of long darkness, as the days slowly turn toward lengthening light. There is wisdom to be drawn from nature — all things benefit from withdrawal and stillness as a preparation for renewal. Just as […]