Half Eaten Apples

5 Impediments to Children Helping Around the House

You can probably guess the first one!

Aug 20, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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July 2025

Do Kids Really Hate Chores?

Or do parents hate inefficient help?

Jul 21, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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June 2025

Passing Kids Off (Transitions Part III)

Using “matchmaking” to help kids form new attachments

Jun 8, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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April 2025

Transitions with Children, Part II

Focusing on the environment

Apr 20, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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Children Navigating Transitions

From bedtime to baby siblings and everything in between

Apr 13, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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March 2025

Safe, Separate, Supervised... and Smothered

How well-intentioned efforts to keep children safe may be creating an insidious threat

Mar 30, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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February 2025

Big Expressions: Where, When and How

Or how I am putting an end to morning jogs

Feb 27, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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January 2025

Montessori and Matrescence

Putting Mothers on the Developmental Map

Jan 21, 2025 • Christine Carrig

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December 2024

The Myth of Magic Bullets

And developing an appetite for uncertainty

Dec 2, 2024 • Christine Carrig

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November 2024

Between a Rock and (an actual) Hard Place

And the necessity of attunement and discernment

Nov 12, 2024 • Christine Carrig

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October 2024

When Parenting is Particularly Relentless

Can we keep from piling on?

Oct 22, 2024 • Christine Carrig

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July 2024

Parenting Scripts: Supportive or Stifling?

It depends on how and why they're being used.

Jul 29, 2024 • Christine Carrig

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