The best defense against drug/alcohol abuse is a good offense: Prevention. This takes time and attention over decades. YES decades. Parenting is not for the weak or faint-hearted. We hold a vision for what we want our kids to become for a long time. We must follow up with diligence and vigilance.
Archive for the ‘Family meetings’ category
The anti-drug abuse: Family connection
February 13, 2012Mother guilt & father guilt are delivered with the baby
January 23, 2012Sarah walked away feeling better about how she responded to the situation. This is priceless. We can practice self-encouragement when we recognize-refrain [the hardest two to achieve] then find the path to relax and resolve.
Presents or Presence?
December 19, 2011Give them three gifts from Santa and spend the rest of the day cultivating a holiday tradition that will last long after the batteries die out from the high tech gifts. Here are some of my favorite simple traditions.
Cultivate holiday happiness and gratitude
December 12, 2011Come to Littleton, Mass. tonight, Dec. 12, 7-9 pm for a parents forum to reduce holiday stress. It’s $15 if you RSVP. Two for $20. Here are three suggestions to defuse the holiday stress, that we women mostly heap on ourselves, in response to impossible standards set by the media, that we internalize. Martha Stewart has a crew of dozens to create her “effortless” crafts, meals and decorations. No one can live up to those ridiculous benchmarks.
