Friday Favorites: May 1
Happy May Day, everyone! It's beginning to look a lot like summer where I am.
With a little boy deep into baseball right now, this one by Randi Olin at Brain, child struck a nerve.
Honest Mom is incredibly generous with her time and energy, offering help and support for mothers with anxiety and depression. Read this one if you are one of those moms.
Grown and Flown has a way of making me cry. And appreciate these moments, right now.
Shell's son is on the autism spectrum, and this description of the way she handles the labeling is very personal and thought-provoking.
Author Lesléa Newman's essay at Dame magazine, My mother always told me not to cry, is beautifully and lovingly crafted.
Does obituary writing sound morbid and terrible to you? Not to Heather Lende. I think you'll appreciate some of these lessons she learned from writing in the obit section.
Tissue alert. I'm going to the park now; thanks, Natalie.
Karma is a wonderful teacher. If I learn to simply not say the negative thing, even when the insult is hurled my way or my patience tested, my sleep remains peaceful and undisturbed. Even better, if I learn to greet the insult with cheerfulness, I’ve increased good karma in both directions! It’s a double bonus.
David Kipp
Great advice on having a strong relationship with your teenager by Michelle Lenhardt at The Mid.
I don't care for the polar labels "free range" and "helicopter parenting" - I appreciate Carter Gaddis' take on finding balance within your own family.
This post by Rudri Bhatt Patel at Role Reboot on having an only child is beautifully written.
Thought-provoking piece on working and mothering at Time magazine:"Working mothers who feel inadequate, even as they continue to work hard, may suffer from what Brene Brown, author of the bestseller Daring Greatly, calls the 'never enough' problem: a persistent, self-defeating belief that we will not be worthy or lovable until we are richer, thinner, more powerful, more successful, and so on. We are made to feel, she writes, 'that an ordinary life is a meaningless life.'"
And from my local paper, a very sweet human-interest piece about a 97-year-old volunteer at Dell Children's Hospital. Since my son was a patient at that very hospital this week, I can appreciate someone like Edmund.
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In case you missed it, my Listen To Your Mother co-producer Leigh Ann Torres and I were live on a podcast at the Austin-American Statesman, and it's now live, along with a short video segment.
Radio and TV, too! Here's my video on the KVUE morning show the day of our show last Saturday. I can't wait to share the videos of the cast with you, because they were amazing.
Today, I'm syndicated at Mom Babble with one of my favorite posts, Stuck in Someday. Check it out - I'm reminding myself now.
Love,
Kristin
With a little boy deep into baseball right now, this one by Randi Olin at Brain, child struck a nerve.
Honest Mom is incredibly generous with her time and energy, offering help and support for mothers with anxiety and depression. Read this one if you are one of those moms.
Grown and Flown has a way of making me cry. And appreciate these moments, right now.
Shell's son is on the autism spectrum, and this description of the way she handles the labeling is very personal and thought-provoking.
Author Lesléa Newman's essay at Dame magazine, My mother always told me not to cry, is beautifully and lovingly crafted.
Does obituary writing sound morbid and terrible to you? Not to Heather Lende. I think you'll appreciate some of these lessons she learned from writing in the obit section.
Tissue alert. I'm going to the park now; thanks, Natalie.
Karma is a wonderful teacher. If I learn to simply not say the negative thing, even when the insult is hurled my way or my patience tested, my sleep remains peaceful and undisturbed. Even better, if I learn to greet the insult with cheerfulness, I’ve increased good karma in both directions! It’s a double bonus.
David Kipp
Great advice on having a strong relationship with your teenager by Michelle Lenhardt at The Mid.
I don't care for the polar labels "free range" and "helicopter parenting" - I appreciate Carter Gaddis' take on finding balance within your own family.
This post by Rudri Bhatt Patel at Role Reboot on having an only child is beautifully written.
Thought-provoking piece on working and mothering at Time magazine:"Working mothers who feel inadequate, even as they continue to work hard, may suffer from what Brene Brown, author of the bestseller Daring Greatly, calls the 'never enough' problem: a persistent, self-defeating belief that we will not be worthy or lovable until we are richer, thinner, more powerful, more successful, and so on. We are made to feel, she writes, 'that an ordinary life is a meaningless life.'"
And from my local paper, a very sweet human-interest piece about a 97-year-old volunteer at Dell Children's Hospital. Since my son was a patient at that very hospital this week, I can appreciate someone like Edmund.
* * *
In case you missed it, my Listen To Your Mother co-producer Leigh Ann Torres and I were live on a podcast at the Austin-American Statesman, and it's now live, along with a short video segment.
Radio and TV, too! Here's my video on the KVUE morning show the day of our show last Saturday. I can't wait to share the videos of the cast with you, because they were amazing.
Today, I'm syndicated at Mom Babble with one of my favorite posts, Stuck in Someday. Check it out - I'm reminding myself now.
Love,
Kristin