The "I AM" Blog
Emotional intelligence gets thrown around so often now that the phrase has started to lose its edges, turning into something vague and aspirational instead of something specific a person actually does. Strip it back down and it's simpler than the...
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The week before school starts has a shape to it, a specific kind of tension that shows up in almost every house and somehow never gets talked about directly. The stomach aches that show up at bedtime and disappear by...
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A wall poster telling a kid to believe in themselves does roughly nothing on its own, and most parents have quietly suspected this for years without saying it out loud. Positive self-talk is a skill. Skills get built through repeated...
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There's a version of parenting that believes the way to raise confident children is to tell them they're capable, smart, and brave often enough that they eventually believe it. That version isn't wrong exactly, but it's incomplete, because children are...
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Handing a kid a blank notebook and saying just write about your feelings tends to produce exactly one thing, a blank notebook that stays blank. Kids don't process the world the way adults do, and expecting them to sit quietly...
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