Bored Kids Build Better Brains
I remember growing up hearing the saying, “necessity is the mother of invention, and honestly, I think the same can be…
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When Your Presence Has to Travel
Some days, love has to travel via phone signal. (Thank God it’s not Dial-up.) I have had seasons when work, distance,…
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Photo Memories That Pull at Our Heartstrings
If you know me and my way of capturing moments, you know I am renowned for being the least photogenic person…
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The One Thing That Matters More Than “More Calls”
What happens when you feel like your child’s world is moving without you and connections are getting scarcer? “Make more calls,” but…
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How to Experience Mexico City Like a Local
Looking back, the last-minute move to Ensenada with my family, right in the middle of the pandemic in December 2020, felt…
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The Day You Realize You’re No Longer the Go-To Parent
Until the summer of 2024, I was the default parent who got the calls. The one who would need to grab…
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When Your Kids’ World Moves On Without You
Sometimes I envy the kind of fatherhood my male cousins get to experience up close. When we sit together, the conversations…
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Parenting From Afar Isn’t the Hard Part. This Is.
Burnout. In my previous life as a stay-at-home dad, my days were filled with all the moments familiar to parenting, but…
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Distance Doesn’t Raise My Children. My Consistency Does.
Mainly, when I try to stay connected, it causes my kids to make me seem like a disturbance, which, as a…
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How Parents Can Move the Needle on Speech Delays
Therapy Matters, but Parenting Never Clocks Out… When we first started dealing with Ezra’s speech delay, I naturally looked to professionals…
