For Bonnie Harris, parenting has been nothing less than her life’s work.“Ever since I had children, it became a real passion,” she said. “And I’ve always expected it to sort of run its course and it never has. T that passion just gets stronger and.
You want to interact and make connection when your kids get home from school. Your kids do too but you probably have different ideas about how to do that.You’ve missed them, you want to know what they did all day, how they got along, if they had any.
Published: 8/4/2021 3:48:03 PM
Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the Olympics due to the pressure of being the best is a lesson for all parents. Biles was “struggling with the stress of being the greatest gymnast in history, and outside expectations were just too hard to combat,”
NY Times. I doubt your children have that kind of stress, but it’s worth taking an inventory of what pressures they do feel. What expectations are they trying to meet?
“This Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself when I came in – and I felt like I was still doing it for other people,” Biles, 24, said. “So that just, like, hurts my heart because doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people.”
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Published: 6/1/2021 2:51:45 PM
I came across this article, that I titled “There’s a Crack in Everything” written a little over a year ago soon after Covid hit. I focused on the opportunities that the pandemic could potentially provide and how to find the light coming through the cracks of the shutdown. At this point, I know that so many of you are worn thin and mental health issues have soared. I thought it might be good to revisit this and to see if any of these opportunities were taken advantage of. Where are you now compared to where you were a little over a year ago? How have you and your family fared? Did you find cracks that let the light in? Do things feel lighter now? Many of the unknowns are still unknown. We are still in it. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. That is if your tunnel has not already collapsed.