The Ice Cream Scoop of Character and Context doesn’t require us to excuse anyone’s behaviour or pretend we’re not annoyed. It just helps us portion out responsibility more accurately between person and situation.
Let’s embrace the fact that all of your happiest moments came eventually because you sailed onto the Lock of Emotional Regulation rather than daming yourself up on the Pond of Pain.
Some conversations make us a little brighter, a little more alive, a little more human.
Kids who look at the world with enquiring minds are far more likely to thrive — especially in a world changing as fast as ours — so it matters that we, as parents, help them keep the spirit of kindergarten alive as they grow.
Most families don’t fall apart in dramatic arguments; they drift in the small, tired, everyday moments when everyone is doing their best but nobody has the energy to shift the pattern.