If I ask 100 people about their thoughts on control, 99.5 will whisper “I am a control freak," as if this is a bad thing. Personally, I embrace and celebrate my “control freakish” nature. Why? Because the truth is, being a control freak is not the problem.
With all this focus on obesity, it’s easy to understand how we can let fear drive our decision-making process around nutrition, but it’s important that we recognize that swinging the pendulum too far the other way is just as dangerous.
Another summer, another year, another collection of days caught like fireflies in a jar and let go again. It’s nothing we planned. It’s everything we hope for. Light slanting, days shifting, circadian rhythms tick-tocking. And it rolls.
It's easy to feel alarmist about screen time and kids, especially with headlines feeding the alarm. But most of us agree more than disagree on this topic. Let's use our common ground to engage in calmer, richer conversations about the best ways to equip our kids for the technology-driven world we all inhabit.
I live in Vermont, where the state motto is Freedom and Unity. This sums up America's seemingly opposite ideals; it also describes an ideal family dynamic.
I want my kids to get this: regularly escaping routine is refreshing and invigorating, and showing up to seize whatever time you have with your people is important.
As I sit here writing, I feel that mixture of excitement and anxiety that comes up for me anytime I leave my kids for a few days. I know that I'm doing this for myself - to help reclaim those parts of me that I never actually needed to put away or give away or push away at all.
