Our subjective view on things — When I was having issues with anxiety and panic attacks, part of my therapy was to understand how it worked. How our thoughts determine us not only to view a situation differently but also cause us physical problems. It was one of the techniques I used to calm down: analyze…

This time, I’m gonna start with an example. We adopted a little girl one year ago. She was three and a half at the time and, most nights, she would cry when going to sleep because she mostly didn’t want to go to sleep. It was a strategy to make…

Every parent has rules. But most of us only think we do. It’s useless to have an “in bed by 9 PM” rule if you’re never going to follow up on it. If your child knows that the “we don’t speak while eating” rule is only active once every two…

We love change. Well, some of us love change, sometimes. Kids are even more into things staying the same and knowing what to expect. They need the safety of the known. Every bad behavior that a child exibits has the root in a need that is not filled, or a…

Parenting tricks that work Ahh… the most basic tactic, the “I’m gonna count to three” that we see everywhere in movies… As I heard it once again, this time, actually having a kid… who obviously, wasn’t listening to me or my husband, I thought, wow, now is the perfect time…

In this second “episode”, I’m talking about something that really made me excited about writing as a way to earn a living. I’ve always had a fascination with commercials. Either TV or radio or billboards or whatever. It’s hard to explain why, but I thought of how awesome it would…

I love writing here even if I don’t earn a lot (and that’s a more elegant way of saying I earn nothing). But it feels like ages have passed since I’ve been trying to find ways to get paid to do it. Not here necessarily, but somewhere. So I’ve been…