…so we waited… A couple weeks ago I walked by our living room window and looked, once again, at our tree and stared in awe as I realized it had…
With Thanksgiving already over in Canada and the United States, and with Hannukah, Christmas and other celebrations coming in just a few weeks, we are firmly into the holiday season….
…Institute. I have come to depend upon Gail as a friend, a confidante, as an advisor, and a source of inspiration. I have come to depend upon her fierce independent…
…get by without their parents and she would too. Her alarm skyrocketed and the school administrator told my friend she was not allowed to come into the school to say…
…at the Executive Airport Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre in Richmond, BC. Discipline will also be a theme for a number of sessions throughout the day, and the Making Sense…
…stayed “safely” armoured away for many years in order to avoid feeling anything at all. Years passed, and ironically, I began working with adolescents more armoured than I was. It…
…the pallor and coldness of death. Some of these references are cultural but many are visceral and common to all humans. At Halloween children experience all these things in a…
…going away for a night, he and I were playing basketball on the driveway as his dad drove out and on his way. My son looked at me, alarmed, and…
…the bully is a child or a teenager and requires at least one caring adult who is willing to try and forge a strong connection with them. The adult will…
…and jumping, shrieking and exploring, absorbed completely in the magic of our surroundings, I noticed that a brand-new project was coming to life: an elaborate sandcastle was now in the…