DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD

How do you teach children what is real? Or do you let them figure it out on their own? How do you do that when the first five years of…

I am grateful for everything I know about the darkness [note: I was asked to share a story on the subject of gratitude for Storyteller Sunday at United Church of…

Paying Attention or seeing with: mothering at the Detroit Institute of Arts   When I was a kid and we traveled my mom always took us to museums. In New…

In all the generalizations about little boys—all the things that made me hope for a daughter instead of a son—all the #boymom hashtags; all the jokes about pee and penises—there…

“Actually, not discrepant. Deeply human. And this mixture of suffering and joy is deep. Very deep.” – Bhanu Kapil Today, I bought my boy ice cream and took him to…

At a trauma training, one of the many I attend, we diagram the brain, the amygdala, the hippocampus, the orbitofrontal cortex. The lines showing where the stress hormones come from,where…

After the nightmare, or, parenting when the worst has already happened (for Bhanu Kapil, who taught me to place my body on the ground)     Last night my child…

Like water through a fine mesh sieve all the things which the assessment does not capture Our boy is learning to connect words and sounds to things. Behind is his…

I killed the fish. It was not deliberate. * It was a sudden occurrence, which is the same way my grandmother described her recent fall. * Suddenly, I was somewhere…

Taking children places, or, good luck ever enjoying a museum again At the Detroit Zoo a teenage girl said to her teenage boyfriend, it would be so fun to bring…