When your teen threatens to leave…

An interesting question was asked this week. I’m sharing it below, along with my response. I’d love to know how you feel and what you would suggest to this Mom. Whether you have a teen in your house or not please leave a comment of your own. We all can benefit through conversation!

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I am a single mom of a 13 year old girl she is very good and kind to strangers and all other parents except me.  In the last year she has changed a lot and I have also been going through major healing/ deep soul work. I have been really lost this year and totally giving my power away to a man and she has seen my unhappiness and anger.  I am not proud of that and taking steps towards changing that.  Recently she has threatened to leave say she is leaving this house and talking back a lot.  I don’t know why she is so angry I get bits once in awhile , we will have a pretty good conversation and then she just blows up and I try to teach her that that is not the way to react.  But the threatening she is going to move somewhere else bothers me. Has anyone have advice on how to deal with that.  I calmly say where are you going to go, and then I say that would not be a good decision but she still says she is at 13 years old. Thanks.

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What’s right…

Sometimes we find ourselves just ‘putting out fires’ all day long. Seems like there’s always someone having a crises or meltdown about something. After a few consecutive days like this it becomes really imperative that we actively look for WHAT’S RIGHT!

I can promise you that in each day there is something going right. Even if it seems like the world is falling apart around you and the pressure is mounting… if you can take a moment to find just one thing to purposefully appreciate, you can build on it.

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Two girls on a BLUEBERRY hunt

Today is a Musical Monday…  Set to Bette Midler’s Blueberry Pie I’m dedicating my newest video to my granddaughter and her cousin -  two girls in the blueberry patch (do blueberries grow in patches?!?)

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Leadership – Parentship?

I was recently reminded of a story told by Joe Batten at a Leadership Training Seminar. [Joe wrote the best selling book titled: “Tough-Minded Leadership”.] And it got me thinking that effective parents are very much like effective leaders… we just don’t seem to term it that way.

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Kids chalk drawings… tagging?!?

Here’s a bit of irony for you… today I wanted to talk about ‘kids gone wild’… and how much I love seeing a bunch of children playing wildly and with abandon (sadly, an all too rare sight these days) and then I ran across a comment someone made about receiving a note from their apartment management stating that if they don’t immediately clean up their children’s sidewalk art they would be fined for ‘tagging’!!!

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