Ah, the gift of Parenting!  What amazing teachers these little ones are that 'run across, around, and through our hearts' as they show us who we really are.  With nearly 30 years of working with thousands of students and parents, I have been privileged to learn many truths about this all important relationship.  We offer this page as a place for you to share what you have observed and learned, along with the space to ask for suggestions with helping you do this most important job!  We welcome the words of others that have walked that path and gleaned the experience as a way to help 'the community'.  There is enough negativity in the world...let's help shift into creating what will grow the next 7 generations in ways to uplift the planet!

Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet, described parenting as:
"Your children are not your children.  
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. 
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.  For they have their own thoughts. 
You may house their bodies but not their souls. 
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. 
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.  
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. 
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."