by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 23, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Promoting a positive body image in our tweens and teens starts with regard. Awhile back I was talking to a client who has a tween son. She said to me, “Sports have started up and OHHHHH my god, the smell!” She told the story of how he came home from...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 13, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
Two years after I had graduated from college, I discerned that I was going to work and live in solidarity with the marginalized. I didn’t want to just work at a free clinic and then go home to my nice apartment. I wanted to be alongside the marginalized. I looked into...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 12, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Anxiety in children is on the rise. Here I talk straight and get real about it. I talked to a dad in coaching who shared with me that he and his wife were struggling with their middle school-aged child. He had increasingly become anxious and even “OCD” about things,...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 10, 2018 | Regarding Our Children
The other day, I stood there listing out to my son the things he had to do before he left for soccer practice and what he should be doing with his time. And then I just stopped. I stopped talking. I stopped time-keeping. I stopped nagging. I stopped micromanaging....
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 8, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Last night I needed to talk less and listen more. My family knows that I am not at my best at night. I am tired and sensitive. And yet it’s at bedtime that my children often want to talk. Sometimes I can barely handle it. I get more easily triggered. I don’t respond...