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Thinking About Multilingual Little Ones
I have been learning Italian for 243 days via Duolingo. I am not great at it and my mouth struggles to make the sounds that even Italian toddlers can produce. I find it frustrating and yet, there is something so fascinating about trying to learn something new as an adult that would have been effortless…
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To all who walk the path with incredible, exceptional young humans…
You are the NurturerInterpreterAdvocatorMediatorSafe PlaceImprovisor, ready for any situation. You breathe, you hug, you give space, you clean up, you lose sleep, you meet, you greet the new day with hope you cry, you rage (in the quiet away from their eyes and ears and heart). The future looms —the densest of fogs without clear…
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Parenting Starts Before Birth
Often, when I reflect on my own parenting journey, I wish I had taken time to sit with my partner and think – really think – about how I wanted to show up as a parent before my kids arrived. So much of pregnancy is taken up with the preparation for the event of birth:…
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The Pace of the Young Child
Recently, I found a keychain Scrabble game with tiny magnetic tiles that was given to me before I left my home in the Middle East to live with my grandparents in Maryland, at the shiny age of 14. This game, along with a novel, was my entertainment on the long journey across the world with…
