For other posts on this book, click here. After taking the ‘test’ in chapter three to rate Ruthie in the spectrum of nine different personality traits, it came out just as I had suspected: she’s spirited. But just barely, as it turns out. She’s at the low end of the Spirited range. Her intensity is … Continue reading Book Club: Raising Your Spirited Child
Most of us find ourselves facing an array of labels spoken and unspoken that affect how we think, feel, and act toward our spirited children. If we are going to build a healthy relationship with them, we must lay the labels out on the table, dissect them, and then redesign those that make us and … Continue reading Book Club: Raising Your Spirited Child
Spirited kids are the Super Ball in a room full of rubber balls. Other kids bounce three feet off the ground. Every bounce for a spirited child hits the ceiling. I started this book today. The subtitle is ‘a guide for parents whose child is *more* intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and energetic.’ Sounded like the … Continue reading Book: Raising Your Spirited Child
Here’s a list of books I’ve read in the last couple years, continued from my side bar. I’m a slow reader, plus I have two kids, write, and have a host of other things taking up my time. But I do enjoy reading, and try to mix up the fiction with the non fiction a … Continue reading Books
Today is Ruthie’s last day of preschool for the year. I don’t think I mentioned this at the time, but at the beginning of March I pulled her out of the preschool she had been in all year, and switched her to a different one. She had been in a bilingual preschool learning Spanish – … Continue reading My Little Graduate
If I had endless time to blog, this is what I would be talking about, in no particular order… the book I am reading, Raising Your Spirited Child the panel I spoke on last night with the Kindlings Muse the last two projects I accomplished in my Great Purge of 2007 the deep thoughts that … Continue reading Stay tuned…
I’m excited that so many people are on board for discussing this latest book I’m reading: Raising Your Spirited Child. I always get more out of books like this when I can be inspired by the things others are seeing that don’t jump out at me, so thank you for your willingness to come along … Continue reading Online Book Club