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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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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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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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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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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