Wake up, roll out of bed, play for hours, learn something new, eat, poop, sleep. This sounds like a great day for a kid. A childhood of the 80’s was very similar to this. Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, there was little to no pressure to participate in an activity of my mom’s […]

Is your kid going to be okay coming over to play? Anything going on that I should know about? I find myself asking these question more often than not with my children’s friends. The question used to be laced in food allergies, but it’s becoming more common to address emotional issues. For the most part, […]

There I was sitting in a bus with a bunch of other runners heading back to the starting line of the Chicago Marathon. We all had that aura around us of disappointment. At some point during the race, we had to bow out for reasons only we knew. The ride back to where we stood […]