May, 2018 | PulseonParenting

Step 5 to Live an Extraordinary Life: Slow Down

May 31 2018

“Mom.” “Mom…Mom.” MOM, MOOOOOMMMM!!!” I know, right? We’ve all been there. (Not to exclude the guys, so please feel free to substitute “Dad!!!”.) Maybe we’re on the phone, or the toilet, or on a mission to get the bills paid while making supper. Inevitably (even at age 13), kids need us at the times we are most indisposed. They are checking in, making sure we can disengage from other aspects of daily living in case they want us. Younger kids “check in” by testing boundaries, shocking us parents to attention. My twins used to climb up on the dining table…

May 24 2018

It was ironic. And a little bit sick. Not nearly as sick as an airport television tuned in to a feature on plane crashes or that particular vendor in Pompeii selling snow globes of the doomed city. But still. As I was researching this article, a pop-up video advertised a delicious recipe using Reese’s peanut butter cups. SO not fair. But I’ll admit, at first the video didn’t seem out of the ordinary…so common and everyday is our exposure, in media or on the dinner table, to sugary nirvana. It may be the 21st century but humans still have cave person…

May 17 2018

It seemed like there was so much more of it than at other parties, in other years. Maybe it was because I was paying better attention. But I couldn’t believe all the junk food. It was as if the evil witch’s house from Hansel and Gretel had crash-landed in my son’s third grade classroom. I had the urge to start picking through the rubble looking for ruby slippers. (Wait, I’m confusing my fairy tales, aren’t I?) I know I was complicit in this edible crime, having brought something sweet and tasty for the kids to gobble up. Of…

May 14 2018

Whew! I hadn’t talked in front of a group in many years…so it was good to push my limits at the Durango Diaries event last week honoring mothers. A few days ago I published my story for what was hopefully your reading pleasure:). Please find below the link to the video version (The presentations are in reverse order…I got to be in the warm-up-the-crowd position and went first, so my story is the final one posted). I invite you to also watch the other four stories as well. These moms are amazing! Make sure you have tissues handy… https://durangoherald.com/durango-diaries…

May 10 2018

I haven’t spoken in public since my son disappeared from supper at Disney World. Then, I was calling his name across a couple hundred people enjoying a meal of their own. That was six years ago and I was pretty nervous. (Fortunately, our separation from our son at the Happiest Place on Earth was brief; he had taken himself to the bathroom and knew where he was the entire time….) I had the honor of speaking at one engagement in a series called Durango Diaries sponsored by our local newspaper. The topic was Mothers’ Day and speakers chosen to…

May 03 2018

My kids’ bathroom is a disaster. Wet towels carpet the floor, the wastebasket fills up daily (at least the trash is actually in the basket…), and I’m pretty sure the lavatory has gone MIA as it can’t be seen for all the soap bars, hair ties and dried crusts of toothpaste. I try to let this swamp be the kids’ responsibility, but on days the nesting instinct takes over, I can’t help myself. The other day I found a half-dozen gooey, gummy, squeezed-from-the-middle toothpaste tubes. Ick. I lined them all up on the counter and the bathroom was transformed into…

Archive - May 2018

Step 5 to Live an Extraordinary Life: Slow Down

How to Approach the Sugar Epidemic

Why We Need to Reduce Our Kids Sugar Intake Now

Durango Diaries: My Mothers’ Day Story

Happy Mothers’ Day to All Our Modern-Day Harriets (That’s All of You:))

Something You Should Know About Your Toothpaste