with Viki de Lieme
Last week I was feeling like s***. I was "supposed" to be feeling great because we were finally out of a four-week lockdown and my life was "supposed" to be getting back on track, but when I dropped Ilay (4.5) off at daycare and came back home to start working and enjoying my restored freedom, ...
You've read it right. I love doing dishes. The more dishes in the sink at the end of the day, the happier I am. If it sounds funny or uncanny, that something that most people hate is one of my favorite things, I get it. You can't find a connection to the idea of loving the (dirty) dishes. ...
Communication is everything—words matter, much more than anything else. What we say to our children shapes their brains, their hearts, and their souls, and determines who they grow up to be. Will they grow up being confident human beings, knowing their place in the world, knowing that their ...
Imagine yourself going on a trip to the mountains or the desert. In the beginning, you're enjoying your freedom, that feeling no one can reach you, that you don't owe anything to anyone, no explanations nor tasks, nothing, absolutely nothing to do. After a little while, you get a bit ...
Empathy is the living and breathing heart of everything that I do. It's the core of how I parent; it's the essence I show up with, in my marriage; it's the foundation from which I build myself. It's also the root of all the work that I do with parents worldwide. Empathy and Us Our world is ...
Over a year ago, I wrote "10 Things I Do Each Day to Build an Unbreakable Bond with My Child"; this post broke the internet with over 40k shares. It took me over a year to figure out why this post was so successful, and now I got it. Because of these two words, "unbreakable bond"; in a ...
