What my kids are only now starting to figure out is that I get even with them in my writings. I only change the names to protect the guilty. My son was a high school senior when I wrote this. HS Senior RebellionIf you listen carefully, you can hear it all over Collin County. It […]
Read MoreAs the kids grew up, they would regularly tune me out at home, but as a counselor my adolescent clients are surprisingly candid and willing to talk about their lifestyle and what is happening in their lives. When I cross paths socially with my friends who still have kids in high school someone usually prods […]
Read MoreThere is no such thing as perfect parenting. Feel free to check that out with my kids. What I will cop to is near perfect intention. My parenting intentions were almost always solid. Exhaustion (often from parenting!) and ignorance might be the only contributors that prevented a perfect score here. Alas, my kids didn’t get […]
Read MoreAn Open Letter to Parents: It has taken me 16 years (that’s how old my son is), but I think I have finally come up with a New Year’s resolution that would enable all of us to better shape our children’s growth and development. This year let’s all resolve to allow natural consequence guide the […]
Read MoreI spent the first 18 years of both of my children’s lives trying to give them my experience. I have concluded that this attempt has been a horrible failure as it relates to changing their choice of behavior. As I have watched others struggle with child rearing, and struggled myself, I have concluded that natural […]
Read MoreNote: I wrote this a few years back when my daughter was moving up to Frankford Middle School in Plano ISD This fall I entrust another child to PISD as she moves to middle school. As a parent, I would prefer to continue with Indian Princess. As a counselor, I recognize that adolescence has begun, […]
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