Tag: parenting
A Year of Getting Things… Perfect?
As in-person hybrid school approaches, I find myself wanting to do “better” in these last days of NTI. I’ve had a year of getting things...perfect?...
Financial Advice Every Family Needs
As a math and economics major in college and the wife of a financial advisor, I like to think I am slightly above average...
Between Generations :: A Shift in the Asian Mindset
Lola. This is the word for grandmother in Tagalog, the standardized national language of the Philippines. My daughter’s Lola, my mother, is a small...
Parenting a Child with Special Needs
Parenting is something like a hiking trail. There are so many turns, bumps, and hills. Sometimes, one of those bumps is a child having special needs....
Don’t Have Kids? You Don’t Get an Opinion.
It amazes me how many times, in the 11 years my child has been alive, how much advice I’ve been given by those that...
Co-Parenting :: What Our Child Sees
I have been co-parenting with my daughter's father for a while now. I was curious about co-parenting, what our child sees. So, the other...
Three Important Steps to Planning
It was 12:15pm, I was starving and realized I'd actually forgot to pack my lunch that morning. So, with a grumbling tummy I left...
5 Simple Ways to Empower Our Daughters
At first glance, our daughter is the epitome of a 3 year old girl. She loves bright colors. Tutus are her outfits of choice....
Holocaust Remembrance Day :: Why It Is So Important to Remember
We celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day internationally every year. Americans liberated Auschwitz on this date in 1945. By this point, over 10 million people had died,...
As a Parent, We Cannot Be Silent
If you are like me, you were ever hopeful, yet hesitant, that ringing in a new year would be a year for change in...