What Kind of Parents Do We Want to Be? 40 Questions for Your Vision
There is a peculiar kind of amnesia that sets in after you become parents. You forget who you were before. You forget what you wanted. You forget the vision you had for your family. You get swept up in the daily chaos of feeding and sleeping and surviving, and suddenly years have passed and you
When You Grew Up Differently: Aligning Your Parenting Philosophies
There is a particular kind of tension that emerges in the quiet moments after the baby arrives. It is the tension of realizing that the person you love most in the world grew up in a completely different universe than you did. Their normal was not your normal. Their family’s way of doing things feels
Creating Your Family Mission Statement: Questions That Define Your Values
Creating Your Family Mission Statement: Questions That Define Your Values There comes a moment in every family’s journey when you realize you are building something bigger than yourselves. It usually happens in the quiet hours after the children have gone to bed, when you are sitting together and talking about what kind of family you
The Questions We Wish We’d Asked Before Becoming Parents
The Questions We Wish We’d Asked Before Becoming Parents There is a particular kind of wisdom that only arrives after the fact. It is the wisdom of hindsight, the clarity that comes from looking back at a choice and seeing all the things you wish you had known before you made it. For many parents,
