Meeting the Birth Mother

I had a chance to sit down with Business and Marketing Consultant Aaron Cruikshank to talk about something dear to his heart. Aaron was adopted as a little baby. When he in his mid-30s, he began a quest to find his birth mother. This inspirational story allowed me to...

No Need to Spoil Me Mommy

This is a continuation from my previous post called the Consequences of Trying to Spoil My Kids where I spoke about the lessons I learned from trying too hard to spoil my children. In this video, my seven year old son tells me how much candy and chocolate I should be...

Consequences of Trying to Spoil My Kids

You Can’t Always Give Kids Everything They Want: My parenting adventure continues with this funny story about my parenting insights. Cedric really wanted to go on a real train ride for a very long time. He bugs me about it from time to time. In order to do this...

How A Child Learns What is Important

Today Dante had a small skating competition in his class. Prior to going to the competition I asked him if he wanted to tidy his hair with gel or wear something nice for the competition and he said, “Who cares? It’s not important.” We showed up at...

A Mother’s Fear

As my kids continue to gain a sense of the world around them and grow into the wonderful little people that they are, I realized that new challenges arise with my role as their mother. Recently, this conversation happened in the car with my 6 year old son Cedric....

How to Go to Hell – A six year old’s perspective

It seems like I don’t get my kids together in the van often enough or long enough. We came back from a 90 minute road trip and here is an interesting conversation that went on: Dante (7 years old): How do you get to the center of the Earth? Dad: I don’t...