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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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Launch Your Young Adult

Parenting

26 Jul

Hi! I’m Karen! I’m a parent of three grown kids and a former coach for educators. While mentoring new teachers during their first year of teaching, I discovered something surprising. The same coaching strategies I used to equip teachers to thrive in the classroom were just as effective for guiding my own young adults to solve their own problems and…
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I Love Picture Books!

Writing

24 Jul

Hi! I’m Karen! I’m a children’s picture book author, who’s kind of obsessed with kid’s stories. If I find myself in Barnes and Noble, I’m uncontrollably drawn to the children’s section, like Augustus Gloop is drawn to chocolate. In my former career as an elementary teacher, story time was always my favorite part of the day. There’s nothing like casting…
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I Believe In You

Parenting

13 Jul

One of my favorite scenes in the movie, The Help, is when the nanny says to the little girl, “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them like that and shows them who they can be. Words are so powerful. We have the ability to instill in our grown kids a confidence to tackle…
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Karen Pickrell

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

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  • Guest Interview on Mom Talk Podcast
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