Parenting requires heroic levels of effort sometimes. You’re often tired, confused, or hurried. You don’t feel like much of a superhero most of the time. Of course, parents can’t fly, turn invisible, shoot fireballs from their hands, or run faster than a speeding bullet. But did you know that you already have a parenting superpower?…
“I believe the children are our future,” belts Whitney Houston, and I remember thinking this was a beautiful sentiment the first time I heard it. Since then I’ve interacted with some actual children, and I’ve changed my mind. I hear that idea a lot, that children are the future or that they are a precious…
If you had to pick one word to describe your parenting, what would it be? The word you think of probably isn’t what you had in mind when you started parenting. It might be a word like stressful or rushed or resentful. If your children were to describe you in one word, what do you…
This article on the uncertainty of farming is by Joshua Bardwell, edited from the article Inherently Impermanent originally posted in June 2010 at Jack-Booted Liberal Gardening is filled with such extremes of emotion for me. Successes really fill me with joy… First batch of cucumber pickles is sitting in the fridge… Yellow squash and zucchini…
Have you tried journaling as a coping strategy for stress? What are your main strategies? We’ve all got little strategies to work with for times when we’re emotionally distressed. Some of these are good for us or neutral, and some are not as healthy. A few of my go-to coping mechanisms are eating, napping, and really…
