Tag: love

Parental Praise In The Real World

It’s good to give your kids positive reinforcement, but also to remind them that the entire world isn’t standing in awe of them

I’m starting to become the lame one in our dynamic. I know it. I’m not completely there yet, but give it time.

It was one of the most heart-wrenching-in-a-good-way moments I have ever had in my life.

Just because I don’t know why he reacts a certain way to something, that doesn’t mean I can’t support him during it.

It’s easy to be so fixated on one specific victory that we miss all the other ones happening around us.

I had to force myself to see the worst of him, even though I usually can only see the best.

This wasn’t home and no other parents were doing it. That’s what makes it “embarrassing.”

Yeah. He’s not gonna look. You can just take it.

I’ve had a lot of broken washing machines in my life. Only one was literal and the rest were all figurative.

I pictured her handing me paper stacks of glue and popsicle sticks until she was in her 50s.