GPE Blog
Why I Was Taken Aback…
You always wanted to be a good mom, actually a great mom? Me too. It is not easy to explain what 'great' means. It's more like a happy feeling. But let me try to explain 'great' in my own way. To me being a great mom means a loving, interested, curious and...
Do you ever think: “Leave me alone, Don’t do this, Don’t speak to me, Don’t get me even more angry or upset, Don’t push my buttons….
…here is the catch, are you ever in a bad mood? Do you ever think: “Leave me alone, Don’t do this, Don’t speak to me, Don’t get me even more angry or upset, Don’t push my buttons….
Benign neglect?
Benign neglect? When my second child was born I used to put him on a blanket in the dining room. When my three-year-old was home he would go greet him and want to kiss him, over and over. Many times I would step away so I would not be tempted to tell him to leave his...
What is success?
I am still pondering the question of success. What is success? Sometimes I think success is just being able to get up in the morning and face the new day with the determination to do your best and love what you do. Not only does that take courage, it also takes a lot...
What kind of success do you want for yourself or your children
I have been thinking about success quite often lately. What kind of success do you want for yourself or your children. What does it mean for me, and with regards to my children? What does it mean for me, and with regards to my children? For me first and foremost it is...
I don’t want to play that game
I do not want to be my children’s servant. and sometimes I don’t want to play that game. And I definitely do not always want to play what they want to play unless it's something I like to play. I love Lego and puzzles and board games. I like reading stories to my...
Doing vs Being
Whew!! I just spent five hours cleaning up our home! This clean-up reminds me, yet again, that the job of a parent can be so busy that we often think that being busy is what the job is all about. We seem to easily accept that to be a parent means “doing” all the time....
Thinking loved vs feeling loved
I read an article once where the writer asked this question: Most of us think we are loved, but what would our world look like if we truly felt it - if we felt accepted unconditionally? This sentence got me thinking: parents love their children. But do our...
Living with a child with special needs
I have a son with Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy (MD), which is a condition that makes the muscles slowly deteriorate and "they” say causes a life expectancy in the 20’s or 30’s. Is it easy to live with a child with that condition, or any other? No, there is a lot of...
Who are my children
I have four children, and each is very different from the other. This continues to surprise me. My siblings and I are also very different from each other. That surprises me too. After all, as siblings aren’t we from the same “stock?” Sometimes it feels like we...
3 Step Tool to Help Create a Great Bond Between Parents and Their Kids
3-Step Tool for parents to create more bonding in the family
