" Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love."  - Mary Anne Radmacher I’ve settled into the fact that there is something challenging about every stage of parenting, that it never really gets to be “easy.”  Parenting three teenagers has certainly highlighted my own anxiety about the future, and I consistently see the places where my kids aren’t “ready.” My...

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen We’ve been talking about joy in parenting lately, and how it can feel so elusive.  I recall having a well meaning neighbor with no kids at home tell me “to enjoy every moment, it goes so fast,” while I was knee deep in parenting three kids under 5 years old.  I didn’t appreciate the comment then, and now that I have three teens, I often still don’t appreciate it.  It’s hard to find...

​ "Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way."  - George Evans "Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and structures to make it better for everyone."  - Diane Richler The coaches at TPC have been talking lately about how parenting can feel challenging in so many ways. One of the biggest stressors we hear about in coaching parents with neurodiverse children...