Full Spectrum Mama

Many moons ago I speculated that we each possess a certain level of reactivity, and that this reactivity is often exacerbated by parenting...

At the time of the Least Popular Kid in Class Incident ( http://fullspectrummama.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-least-popular-kid-in-class-part-...

In “Laugh Like a…” and “Gortles vs. Vocal Fry” I began to write about the Full Spectrum of speech expressed by my children and our family ...

Many people worry. I don’t remember worrying much before becoming a mother, but back then I used to, how you say, “sleep.” All parents worry...

What are the odds that someone would put on two shirts, one over the other, both inside out and both backwards? Sounds unlikely, no? Actua...

“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Interrupting Cow.” “Interrupting Cow—“ “--Moo!” If you don’t think this joke is funny, or if you think it sh...

Let’s scratch that linear spectrum from my first entry. I’m feeling now that a better visual model would be a circular rainbow pie chart dea...

Maybe it was the “vacation” weekend on the Cape when I spent two out of three nights in the car with Z because she refused to stop screaming...

Later, I am going to write a very serious poem. About death. But first a few words about the most alive people I know, Z and G, and about li...

Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor, neurologist or psychiatrist. I am a Ph.D., but in sociology. This is all from my own speculation and...

There is a range of ways of being known intimately to me as a person, woman and mother, a Full Spectrum, if you will. As a mother of two hig...