The following is from my son’s school newsletter, and I wanted to share it with you because it highlights two things: why I love his preschool, and how I sometimes need to be reminded to tilt my head and look at the children in my life from a different angle…as most things, it’s all about perspective.

Do you know any men who have expressed a male version of “mommy guilt”? Not just wanting to spend more time with the kids, but feeling extremely torn between professional responsibilities and their family life?

When I became a mom, I was a tad nervous with the whole idea of raising a child. I searched Amazon repeatedly for an instruction manual but never found one.
Then I had an epiphany. Raising a child is a lot like raising a puppy. You have to teach them to have nice manners, not to [...]

“I told my son, ‘You cannot continue to run from bullies. You have to stand up for yourself if you want them to leave you alone,’” Tianna Onyebuagu testified during her son, Kenneth London’s murder trial in Tennessee.

There’s been an endemic growth of bullying in our society that has left parents and educators at a loss on how to effectively deal with the onslaught.

Today I found myself in a bit of a parenting conundrum, and when my son asked me to explain another parent’s behavior to him, I was stumbling for words.