Developing Resilience

by | Dec 10, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

Image from PixabayMany of you have heard of (or even attended workshops about) Adverse Childhood Experiences and the effects of toxic stress on the long-term physical and mental health of people who experience it as children.  If you don’t know what this...

What About Pronouns?

by | Nov 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

  Image source:  Pixabay I’ve been thinking about pronouns lately.  It goes with thinking about how to make things like workshops, conferences, and library programming more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy for everyone, particularly trans people.  People...

Affirmations!

by | Nov 26, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

Image source:  PixabayThis weekend, Morning Edition featured a crowd-sourced poem featuring things about America that people are thankful for.  The remarkable Kwame Alexander took submissions and turned them into a beautiful poem.  And guess what? ...

Thankful

by | Nov 20, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

Image from pixabayNovember can be kind of a gloomy month, and I tend to spend the hours of 3:30-5:30 pm feeling vaguely anxious because it seems wrong for it to be getting dark so early.  Whatever I might think about the origins of Thanksgiving, I truly...