Family

Your family. My family. Our family.

Your family. My family. Our family.

A blended family forms when a person and their partner merge their personal lives and start a life together with children from previous relationships. While the concept of blended families has been around for a long time, many were not recognized unless both parents were legally married and had taken on the legal responsibility as guardian of the children (even if one parent was not biologically related). Nowadays, these type of families are becoming even more common, with many divorced parents forming new relationships …

Creating Creative Children

Creating Creative Children

    It is necessary that teachers and parents guide their children to employ creativity en mass, and frequently. This involves making time in our daily lives to encourage this behavior. It requires more open-ended questions, allowing room for more than one "right" answer. It requires allowing our children more freedoms to pursue their interests, communicating with them often about their ideas and opinions, and genuinely considering these creative thoughts as a means of validation. For this, our children will be more empowered; readily willing to act creatively when problems arise, and more confident in themselves…

What to Do When Your Child Comes Out

What to Do When Your Child Comes Out

So, your child has just come out to you as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.  Maybe you have always suspected that your child was LGBTQ, but it had never become a reality until they sat you down at your kitchen table and came out.   What do you do?  How do you embrace who they are in the right way? …