By Jillian Lauren Dear Parents of Well Behaved Children, I just spent the summer traveling around the country with two spirited children and I have met lots of you. You usually like the idea of us. You start out eager to chat with me at the pool or the park. You ask if my boys […]
Living Out Loud
Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Rock And Roll
By Jillian Lauren In some ways, tour is anarchy- the boys are up late dancing to crazy loud rock music, giving each other dinosaur tattoos with face paint, and smuggling forbidden Fruit Loops into their bunks. They spend their days scootering around parking lots, chatting up the other bands, riding questionable attractions in sketchy roadside […]
Adoptive Mom: Life On The Road
By Jillian Lauren Woke up this morning in Atlanta, though the view from the bus window looked exactly like the one in Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Houston… Cloudless blue sky, sun turning the asphalt into a skillet, rows of trucks, camps of buses, sweaty crew guys with creative facial hair heaving around huge road cases, […]
Learn By Teaching
By Jillian Lauren This past weekend, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote at the Parenting in Space conference, a fantastic therapeutic parenting conference. I followed up my presentation with a workshop on therapeutic writing. The conference was put on by some of my touchstones in the therapeutic parenting community, including Christine Moers, Billy […]
On Keeping A Journal
What Not To Say To Prospective Adoptive Parents. And What To Say Back
By Jillian Lauren Would you walk up to a pregnant woman and tell her about your friend’s cousin’s daughter whose infant died of a rare disease, offer her the unsolicited tale of your hairdresser’s daughter’s home birth gone wrong, tell her about every mother you know visiting her teenager in rehab, etc.? Would you walk […]
A Review Of When Green Becomes Tomatoes
By Jillian Lauren First of all, go order Julie Fogliano’s When Green Becomes Tomatoes right this minute. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Run-don’t-walk next Tuesday and get it at your local independent bookstore. Okay, well done. You’ll thank me! Now I’ll tell you a little story about this gem of a book… Bright Eyes has a language […]
Adoption Baby Book: More Room On The Couch
By Jillian Lauren I’ve been working on Bright Eyes’ life-book lately. I used My Family, My Journey for Tariku, and I liked it so much I bought another one. A lifebook is the adoption equivalent of a baby book, but has a more expansive focus, documenting not just milestones but also history. I appreciate this […]
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