I was chatting with my four-year-old cousin (who is a 35-year-old New Yorker stuck in the body of a toddler). She was asking me all sorts of inappropriate, sweaty-palm inducing questions like: Did you grow your babies in your tummy, and how did your babies get into your tummy. After I answered affirmatively to the babies in […] Read more…
September 2012 archive
Before I was a Grownup
As working moms, our days are filled with obligations – to our children, to our husbands, to our employers or businesses. We race at breakneck speed from the office to a client and then onto soccer practice. We’re constantly focused on what’s next – you know that and not forgetting our children at school. And to […] Read more…
Teaching The Intangibles, Part II: Gratitude
When the nurse laid my first sweet little baby boy in my arms right after his birth I looked at that squishy little innocent face and swore I would be the best mom in the world. Which for the next ten months meant catering to his every need: feeding him when he was hungry, rocking him when he […] Read more…
Teaching the Intangibles: Part I
Last night my seven-year-old son played the first game of his competitive soccer career. Have you ever watched a John Hughes movie where the white suburban kid is about to learn a major life lesson at great personal embarrassment and expense? So that ‘s pretty much how this game went down. As my son and his […] Read more…