Playing the Lion GameAround the time of my son E.’s first birthday he took charge of managing his separation anxiety, conquering fear, and developing a capacity for courage. …
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Focus Locus Hocus Pocus!As a parent, I find that the more widely I read on subjects not related to parenting, the more I find ideas that give me…
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Warning! Caution! Dangerous Things!“Playing with knives” and “playing with fire” sound dangerous, not surprisingly. If children are allowed to treat these things as toys they probably will get…
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The Path to Courage: Irena Gutowa’s StoryComing up soon is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, so my post is dedicated to one of my own heroes, rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke. About…
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Fenrir: Big, Bad WolfA few weeks ago I wrote about trickster tales, and the importance of reclaiming intellectual courage from the stigma of trickery. The tradition of the…
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What’s the Monster Under Your Bed?Lion’s Whiskers asks: What’s the monster under your bed? Our children are not the only ones who fear monsters lurking under the bed, in the…
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Discourage/Encourage: What’s a Parent To Do?Copyright Brian Dunne, Dreamstime.com It turns out that raising courageous kids has a lot to do with knowing when to push them to face a…
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The Briar Patch“What are your favorite stories?” I ask my daughter. Without hesitation the answer always comes back, “Anansi stories.” Anansi the Spider is a trickster in…
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Courage as an Antidote to FearThe difference between the diminished individual, wistfully yearning toward full humanness but never quite daring to make it, versus the unleashed individual, growing well toward…
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Mental Pathways of CourageCourage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher…
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