pick“I kiss you and kiss you
With arms round my own
Ah how I shall miss you
When dear you have grown” -W. B. Yeats
Two favorites that celebrate motherhood! 💖
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pickWhelp, after raising kids in the anxious generation, there are things I think I did really well with and things I‘d definitely change if I had a second chance. I hate the social media that is marketing to tweens and teens and the crap these kids go through. As a society, we for sure overprotect them in the real world and underprotect them online and I worry about the next generation growing up with AI. Ugh. Great read tho. It makes sense.
Taking some liberties with the syllable pattern today.
Today's compliment:
"I'm not embarrassed by
anything you wear, Mom."
High praise from my almost-16-year-old.
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Photo: Yellow Warbler at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan, 2025.
Feet blistered walking
on eggshells, heart bruised by words
spoken without thought. 🥚
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pickWith the latest in scientific research, Dan Siegel illustrates how we can best connect and nurture our relationship with our teens by understanding It‘s not “raging hormones” so much as it is the profound changes that take place in the brain during this period in their lives.
pickMom was right. Everything that is wrong with us and our generation can be blamed on the phone!
pickI really appreciated this memoir of a mother‘s experiences parenting her son and how it‘s quite different than raising her daughter. Julavits‘ son is around 5-12 in this memoir, and my boys fit into this age group so I could relate to much of her worries and also her appreciation of parenting a son. I do worry her daughter will wonder why her mother only wrote about her sibling and not her. And there‘s some handwringing that gets to be a bit much.
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Almost done this audiobook and finding it very interesting, from a parenting POV as well as thinking about my own phone and social media use. I deleted Instagram today as a result.
He advises time in nature as a good antidote, and calls out ppl observing nature through their phones, taking pics instead of just experiencing. Which made me laugh cause just this morning I took this picture of a gorgeous tree in bloom.
