For those of you who have followed my work over the years, you may know that one of the communities closest to my heart is the Parent Encouragement Program.
My relationship with PEP began not as a professional, but as a very overwhelmed young mother. In 1999, I walked into my first PEP class looking for help. Like so many parents, I loved my children deeply but often wondered whether I was getting this parenting thing “right.”
What I discovered there changed my life.
More than twenty-five years later, I am still deeply involved with PEP — now as a certified Parent Educator, workshop facilitator, and member of the Board. So when PEP recently invited me to begin contributing articles to Washington Parent, it felt like a beautiful full-circle moment.
An opportunity to bring together three things I care deeply about: encouraging parents, sharing Adlerian parenting principles, and writing.
The article below is the first of those contributions. It explores a moment many families know well: the arrival of a new baby and the chaos that can follow — and how parents can stay grounded in the middle of it.
I hope you enjoy it.
Watch this space for the next one coming out in the May edition about “Celebrating Differences”!
