The toughest, most persistent challenge in my parenting life might surprise you: it’s shutting my mouth. If you don’t get what I’m saying, you may have found your own biggest challenge, too. As parents, the most important thing you can do for your kids is spend more time with your mouth shut. If you don’t […]
Tag: Duct Tape Parenting
(One reason) why I’m a worse parent when you’re watching
Earlier this year, we read Vicki Hoefle’s Duct Tape Parenting as a family. Hoefle’s non-interventionist style, with an emphasis on nurturing both executive function and family connectedness, is a perfect fit for us. I suspect many other families (ADHD and not) will find the same. And yet. And yet, just the other day, I broke […]
The only early childhood activity worth my money
“Whose child is this?” Talk about mortifying parenting moments. This one happened at a sing-a-long story hour at our local library branch. All the other children were sitting placidly on their caregivers’ laps while R, who was probably around a year old at the time, had walked straight up to the front of the room. He wasn’t misbehaving — at […]