We just finished a week of Special Family Times Together – 27 of us on Christmas Day- that’s a lot of hugs, stories and laughing together! And I got to share in a Christmas Eve service by singing one of my favorite songs, “O Holy Night,” a wonderful piece that helps us focus on Jesus’ Birth. [...]
As I write this, Christmas is just 2 days away, I am battling Long COVID, but excited for our extended family celebration time to come. There are few things as precious to me as eyeball-to-eyeball Family Time - playing together, cooking together, talking together, laughing together, sharing life together. I soak it into my soul. In [...]
Have you ever had a child who wanted to know every detail of everything they were involved with? If you are the one putting braces on them, as many of my readers are, they pepper you with questions from the moment they arrive in your office until the door closes behind them. These children just LOVE [...]
As we go through the Adult to Child Relationship series, the combination we will discuss this week is the High S-Style Adult with the High S-Style Child. This combination hits home since one of my strongest Styles is the S-Style, and I have a daughter who also has lots of S-Style in her. Early in her [...]
Have you ever had a child deliver their TEN good reasons and talk you into something that, deep inside you, your better judgement was screaming, "NO!" Whether they were your own child or your patient or a relative... doesn't matter. These children have a gift at being persuasive. As we go through the DISC Style Adult [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! The history of our Thanksgiving is fascinating! Reading up on it, I came across this Proclamation made by George Washington on October 3, 1789. The wording was so powerful, I wanted to share it with you this Thanksgiving Week: "By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the [...]
