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My Child, the Perfectionist: part 2

My most recent post dealt with coping with perfectionism. Perfectionism has its good points, but unless you can control it, it can rapidly become paralyzing and debilitating. It is hard enough to deal with perfectionism as an adult when you have an idea of why you are experiencing the things you are and have also managed...

Dealing with Perfectionism

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There is nothing that can stop a mom in her tracks like perfectionism. Contrary to what one might think, there are many times when perfectionism doesn’t motivate you to work harder; it actually paralyzes you and prevents you from working at all. How does this process work? For a perfectionist, it is not the idea of having...

God Doesn’t Make Junk

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Depression runs in my family. I don’t want to out specific family members and their particular struggles, but suffice it to say that more than half of my immediate family has experienced a profound struggle with depression. I grew up with a very melancholic personality. I felt things deeply, took things personally, and...

The Sensitive Child

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Are you the parent of a very sensitive child? Although I’m not necessarily referring to allergies and that family of sensitivities, those can play a role in the sensitive child. Rather, when I refer to a sensitive child, I am speaking of the child to whom the smallest disappointment is a tragedy. The smallest...

Legos and Army Men are Calling

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It’s October. My schedule tells me that we should be on this page in our math books and on that week in Tapestry of Grace. Guess what? We’re not there. I ended up switching my 2E (twice exceptional) son’s math program mid-stream, and his antics often throw our whole day off track. I’d love to...

The Power of the Habit

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Have you gone on vacation this summer? Our family just got back from Estes Park, CO, and boy is it hard to return to normal daily life after an idyllic week in the Rocky Mountains! Isn’t it funny how normal life seems to be suspended when you’re on vacation? The things that usually bother you don’t seem to be...

Logic Games for Children

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Logic games are a strange breed of toy. Some kids love ‘em; some hate ‘em. Actually, the same thing could be said for parents (not that some kids love ‘em and some hate ‘em!). Some parents can’t wait to see what new logic toys they can find, and some parents’ skin begins to crawl just...

Keeping Kids Busy during the Summer

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Summer is here! What does that mean in your home and/or homeschool? For my children, it means that very little will change. Oh, the afterschool activities that begin to consume us by May are slowly beginning to taper off, and the Houston heat is descending on us like an unwanted sauna treatment, but apart from a short...

The Intensity of the Gifted Child

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Do you ever look around you, maybe at your sisters or your friends, and wonder if everyone’s marriage and family life are like yours? I do. I already know, since my older sister is my closest friend, that her marriage is nothing like mine. You might be thinking, “of course no woman’s marriage is like...

Futile comparisons

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Do you ever find yourself making comparisons between you and another homeschooling mom you know? Maybe sometimes you even come out on top in your game of comparing. If you’re anything like me, though, when you play the game of comparisons, you inevitably suffer in the analysis. Why is it that we moms continue to do this...