Category: Parenting
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Dificultăți sau oportunități de conectare
Ce provocări ne așteaptă dincolo de pragul adoptiei? Suntem pregătiți sa le facem față? Sunt întrebări cu care ne frământam noi toți părinții potențial adoptatori. Toți copiii adoptați ajung in familii cu diferite carențe: fizice, emoționale, sociale, spirituale. Chiar si dacă au recuperat deja mult la asistenții maternali. Unii poarta cu ei rănile la suprafața, alții…
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Leadership and parenting
Leaders are people who have influence. Whatever your personality type you probably have More influence than you think. In order to grow purposefully, it is best to be aware of the influence you DO have. Accept it. Embrace it. But before you ever lead anyone, you need to follow someone, and that first someone is…
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Calculated risk
We’ve accepted the possibility of judgement and turned up eyebrows in exchange for a bit of extra freedom at the conference. Not irresponsible though. We know our kids. And we’ve poured everything we have in them, purposefully and rationally. We built resilience and mutual trust. And as they grow we grow, and we take risks,…
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Three women in their thirties discussing burnout
It is not an exhaustive presentation. We all shared from what we learned as we traveled through the valley of burnout, camping there for a while, reaching the valley from different directions. Some having started the climb up a while ago. Awareness of where we are is a great starting point. And you don’t have…
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Inclusion
I think power lies within all of us. A sense of empowerment to stand up straight, look people in the eyes, smile, act. Kids hear everything we say, even when we whisper it, especially when we whisper it. Our micro expressions, our judgement or our openness towards others. Ivy gets along brilliantly with many of…
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keeping busy to not fight
The sisters are growing apart in interests. The cyclicality of age difference is taking its toll. J is growing out of the childish games though she joyfully reverts to imaginative baby games for short times. I hear them quarrel a lot mainly because Ivy asks Jackie to play a certain game, and Jackie says she…
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Design by committee
There is a phrase that rings in my head as a reminder: “take up space”. As a tall person I wished myself to be smaller, to not take up space. Because I did not like how some people spread unnecessarily beyond their boundaries, be that on seats and benches, on the plane, or in a…
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On belonging
“Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.” Brene Brown Something or Someone brought us together, even though we are from all walks of life, with…
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Uninvited
The clicks of youth, the exclusion and the standards by which friendships are pursued, it is an age old drama and yet like nothing I’ve seen before. Especially when it comes to a randomized mixed group, like school or neighborhood or church, where we ought to learn to embrace those who are not like us,…
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Prayer
If I were to create a chart, a graph of my emotional stability and my prayer life, I think I would see some direct correlation. I’m not that nerdy though. Alas, the last few months, I have coasted, trying to regain my balance and did not dig deep into introspection and prayer. I talk to…
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Emotions expressed
Growing up I think most of my emotions were welcomed. I was an observant kid but I was still a kid. One time though, I got lost in cernauti in Ukraine when I was 5. After mama found me, we were walking a little bewildered on the sidewalk, and I hit my head on an…
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Social context matters
When I traveled to California with “work and travel” the first summer, my friends there tried their best to help me. My host drove me to apply for jobs. Another friends put a good word with some of his old employers. None of them pan out. I remember now how overwhelmed and frozen I felt.…