Author – The Durango Herald

When it comes to education, is universal preschool a good thing?

Universal preschool is currently a very hot issue in Washington. President Barack Obama’s goal is to have every 4 year old in the country enrolled in preschool, a $75 billion project. ...

DATE: Mar 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Love shown early in childhood is critical to aging adults

Many of us who are aging into the last third of our lives are trying to age well. In some recent research, I ran across an interesting study, known as the Harvard Grant Study. Th...

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Review: Solutions to parenting issues today

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923) In 2003, Robert Shaw, M.D., wrote a book called The Epide...

DATE: Jan 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

This holiday season, spend time reading children’s books

Patient Parenting for December is always about toys for the holidays. In my research this year, however, I felt so disappointed by the plastic, electronic and lack of any creativity in the t...

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Practices and routines are perfect for the winter months

The return to Mountain Standard Time with its early evenings and the cooler temperatures and freezing nights have turned us all more indoors. It’s time for indoor projects, routines and it’s...

DATE: Nov 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

The challenges of parenting kids with gay, lesbian tendencies

This topic is appearing more and more in the press these days, and I find it fascinating that there should be a different paradigm as to how we treat our children. Parents are noticing homos...

DATE: Oct 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

How often we eat may be as important as what we eat

There was an interesting article out recently by Ari LeVaux about eating. He wrote that the timing of meals, when you eat, can be as important as what you eat or how much. The adv...

DATE: Sep 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Number of local families that need child care staggering

I recently had the opportunity to fill in for the director of the new child care center on Florida Road. It was fun to be in the beautiful new building, get to know the families enrolled the...

DATE: Aug 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Summer is the perfect time to relax and slow down

I’ve been running into many families with young children this summer, at Trimble, downtown, at the farmers market, at the river and everywhere. It’s summer! People are all out and about, enj...

DATE: Jul 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Animas High School senior presentations did not disappoint

I was very fortunate to attend several of the Senior Project Presentations from the founding class at Animas High School last month. I was particularly interested in seeing the many Children...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

The feminist movement strikes again with a new book

Happy Mother’s Day! We mothers have been trying to define ourselves in relationship to our work forever. In the last 50 years, we seem to struggle and then gain more of an identity, then str...

DATE: May 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting

Celebrate kids with 2013’s Week of the Young Child

Today is the start of the 2013 Week of the Young Child. This is a national celebration to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Patient Parenting