Month: October 2016

Parenting for the benefit of strangers

My children are not easily ignored.  They are loud.  They are opinionated. They are communicators.  They have a lot of energy.  Everything is important and urgent to them. When they are doing something they go all in, unless it’s reading their school book or eating frittata. Minnie is kind, generous and spots details like Sherlock Holmes. Jackson always has a project he’s working on, he has it all planned out and he wants you to be part of the team (under his leadership of course). I love my children.  I can see so much of me, their, daddy and their grand parents in them and that delights me.  I think my children are fascinating and I hope we help them to grow their God given talents into gifts to the world. My children can also be self absorbed, bullish, cheeky and sometimes out and out rude. They are young, they are at the beginning of their lives and perfection only happens in heaven, which is true for all of us by the way. I know all …