This statement caught my attention and expressed my thoughts very succinctly: Someone who drowns in 7 feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in 20 feet of water. Stop comparing traumas, stop belittling your or anyone else’s trauma because it wasn’t “as bad” as someone else’s. This isn’t a competition, we…
November 15, 2024

In the past several months, I’ve been in recovery, having had everything in my life metaphorically on fire. In these difficult times, I had been speaking with my counselor, when she told me, “Sometimes, you don’t know anything is wrong until everything is on fire.”– Heather Brummer This statement hit me hard as I recalled the…
October 10, 2024

This week’s life lesson is: When you hurt someone, say you’re sorry and give them a hug This lesson usually came after the sharing or biting incidents. We would sit both parties down, admonish who ever needed to be admonished, and then encourage this interaction. I was constantly surprised at how willing the kids were…
November 18, 2021

In continuing on with the things I learned that I summarized in Life Lessons from the Playground, let’s talk gratitude! Say Please and Thank You This is where we teach gratitude to our kids, and the awareness that not everything comes to us “just because”. I loved this because when my precious Ethan (terror 80%…
September 23, 2021

A while back, I wrote a post about lessons I learned while I was a learning development teacher, and how some of these lesson are quite applicable in our current day to day and business lives. As I shared and got feedback, I found that there was more to the story, and many more people…
August 19, 2021
