Listed are the posts for June 2012.
The other day, I ended a frustrating long term relationship with my raspberry patch. For about eight years, I tried many things to make the patch bear fruit. Every year, it would flower abundantly, bees would pollinate the flowers, and then the flowers would shrivel up and die. Every year, I would get my hopes […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I like to look at the key phrases people use to find this website. A surprising amount of searches follow some form of “Should I break up using the Silent Treatment?” It is as if the searcher is hoping that if they ignore their partner, the relationship will magically go away. […]
My daughter is learning how to pedal bike, which means she is also learning quite a bit about facing her fears. Recently, she learned to pedal small distances without me holding her bike. This increased rather than decreased her fear of falling. For a while, the better she got, the more scared she was. The […]
Yesterday, my daughter was in a terrible mood. She didn’t eat enough, and she skipped her nap. The littlest things would trigger the biggest tantrums. Whoever happened to step on the landmine of her bad mood was the person she thought was causing the bad mood. For a three-year-old, this makes perfect sense. Screaming from […]