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Today’s Table Talk … What News? – Letting Kids Fail

by Kay | Jan 30, 2013 | Purposeful Parenting

So much going on in the news… can’t help but share this one. I’m sure you’ll gasp as I did at the story leading the piece. But are any of us too far off that sweet mom? Thinking she was helping her kid? When we cringe at stats concerning...

A Parent’s Greatest Fear

by Kay | Jan 25, 2013 | Purposeful Parenting, Uncategorized

Last week, I wrote a little something for The New York Times Motherlode blog. I hesitated doing it. For so many reasons. Most of which center on my never, ever, ever wanting to assume anything or do anything that would hurt someone who has walked a road of major pain....

Opting for Downton Abbey

by Kay | Jan 21, 2013 | ... on life, Purposeful Parenting

Last weekend, Jon & I sat down to breathe. As we exhaled, we hit the remote control and searched for some veg t.v. – as in, thoughtless, let’s escape for an hour, mind candy. Downton Abby popped up on the guide. So we decided to see what all the hype is...

Table Talk: Ponderings of a Mother’s Heart by Chris Wills

by Kay | Jan 17, 2013 | ...on family, Purposeful Parenting

Today’s post is a beautiful little something that my sister-in-law wrote while fighting back tears as she watched her college-aged son head back to school from Christmas break. Sometimes when we’re in the midst of parenting, all the...

Perfectly Imperfect

by Kay | Jan 14, 2013 | ...on family, Purposeful Parenting

Thanks DMoms for sharing our moatblog experience … especially since the friend with whom I was lunching was their editor Joslyn Taylor. I’ve just loved getting to know her. And boy did she put some wind in my sails that day. “I probably had said too...

Cue the Smoothie – (lest my kid have to chew vegetables)

by Kay | Jan 7, 2013 | Purposeful Parenting

First things first … THANKS so much for all the Cleaning House love last week. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for pinning. Thanks more than anything for the sweet encouraging words that put some major wind in the sails of this flaky mom :) Second things second...