How Routine Can Pull Families Closer Together
We are settling into earlier mornings and sleepier breakfasts and homework instead of free play in the after school hours. We are settling into shorter bedtime windows and showers in the morning rather than at night and schedules that line up with when they need to be...
We Can Learn to Dream By Dreaming With Our Children
I’ve just finished reading him the project we decided on this summer—a picture book they’ve all written and will illustrate—when he looks at me and grins. “Are we going to sell it, Mama?” he says, because he’s 8, and he’s always looking for ways to make money, this...
Limiting screens can open our eyes to life
It’s been a rainy summer, which means kids have been cooped up inside the house (because mud. And boys.), and everyone is touching me, and what I would give, what I would give for some cable television to distract them. We got rid of cable years ago, back when the...
Why resting as a family is a really good idea
A few days ago, we packed up in our minivan, every seat in this eight-capacity vehicle occupied, and went to Family Camp. Family Camp is a place we have been four years running—a retreat over a three-day weekend where families can take time to reconnect, play together...