Category: Parental Anxiety

• Childhood Parental Anxiety Parenting Writing

  Free-Range Parenting: Knowing When to Let Go

  I asked our 9-year-old son if he thought he and his 6-year-old brother were old enough to walk the mile between our home and the neighborhood community pool without me or Mom. He shook his head “no” before I finished the question. “Maybe in one more year,” he said. “But…

  April 15, 2015
• Blogging Dad Kids Parental Anxiety Parenting Religion Spirituality Writing

  Let’s Talk About God

  

  “Every mythology, every religion, is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.” – Joseph Campbell, the Power of Myth Our first summer in Florida, I was 13 years old and wheelchair-bound after corrective surgery on both feet. My parents sent my brother…

  July 10, 2013