Rebekka’s Blog
Thoughts on parenting our children, ourselves, and humanity
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The gift of experiences (or, please stop giving my kids stuffed animals)
This must be a form of cultural amnesia, a collective delusion that each of us is the first one to come up with the idea of gifting a stuffed animal to a young child. The antidote? Distinguished guests, I offer to you the gift of experiences.
What is Mental Health?
If more of our students--heck, if more people in general--could work toward achieving this level of mental well-being, our world would be in a much better place. This is why I'm a mental health warrior.
Sunrise, sunset: Mourning who our children once were, welcoming who they are becoming
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers indeed. And oh, how she is blossoming, even as I gaze. I looked away for a mere moment, and I almost missed it.
Parent Q&A: Preschooler Identity Crisis?
There's the rub of parenting; we create these incredible creatures only to find out they are not our creations at all. They are their own, entirely and remarkably.