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While You Were Sleeping

Writing

12 Apr

“Wake me up in Spring.” Those were the last words he said before he started snoring. That was back in December. A lot has happened since then. Santa came. I celebrated my birthday. I made loads of Valentine cards and sent them to all my non-hibernating friends back home. It’s tough having a friend who sleeps for three whole months…
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Help Your Young Adult Find The Right Career Match

Parenting

25 Sep

Is your young adult working a minimum wage job and living at home with no real plans for the future? It could be that they just haven’t found the right career match for them. When our daughter, Laura, graduated from college with a degree in social work, she didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. After completing…
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Parenting Support

Parenting

10 Sep

Parenting is the most rewarding and the most heartbreaking job on the planet. I’ve had moments of pure joy in parenting, where I just want to bottle up the moment, so I can relive it again and again. I’ve also had moments as a parent where my heart is so broken that it physically hurts, where I wish I could remove…
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Helping Your Young Adult Get Unstuck

Parenting

27 Aug

Is your young adult stuck in life and not moving forward in one or more areas of adulting? The wheel of life wheel of life pdf⁠1 is a great tool for making sure the wheels are in alignment and not all wonky.   The Wheel of Life is divided into 8 different colored sections that represent 8 different areas of…
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Empty Nest Bucket List

Parenting

10 Aug

Are you looking forward to your young adult launching into the world or dreading it? In the movie, Failure to Launch, the mom spoils her son by doing his laundry and fixing special meals for him, yet she appears frustrated and worried that he’s not growing up. She admits later in the movie that she’s actually afraid of having an…
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Karen Pickrell

Hi, I'm Karen. An author, blogger, and recovering Words With Friends addict. I write children's picture books. I also help parents empower their young adult to launch successfully into the big, wide world while developing a closer relationship with them in the process.

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