Full Spectrum Mama

As anyone who deals closely with female children knows, young girls can be difficult. There isn’t a whole lot of “sisterhood” in upper elem...

G’s latest invention is a Lego Boggart game. Boggarts are a type of magical beast in the Harry Potter books known for taking the shape of y...

Parents who have children who were adopted from orphanages often have to ‘teach’ their children to acknowledge pain to themselves and to ex...

On the final day of camp there was a performance by all the children. An acquaintance who has an eleven-year old daughter with a mild atta...

                                                 I. Far From the Tree: For a variety of reasons, it wasn’t until my second year of col...

Today we celebrate V-Day, a day to come together and give voice to the global movement to end violence against women and girls. Today, I, ...

I. A List of Who Can Stand in Front of Me, and When Z was holding a scrap of paper at pickup the other day. From a quick glance, I saw t...

Another way to approach my Full Spectrum household is through a lens of boundaries: Z habitually smashes them, while G is often unaware of...