The Resolute Woman

Category: children

  • Eager for new adventures

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    While I was watching my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, walk across the stage and receive her master’s degree recently, I remembered the day she started school at Children’s House Montessori School. I was nervous that day as I drove her to school for the first time because I was sure she would be anxious about leaving…

  • Bossy little girls

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    Yeah for bossy little girls! “I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy to be told instead she has leadership skills,” says Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. Colleen Walker repeated that quote recently at a meeting of Girl Scout leaders. She’s the chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, a council…

  • Can we be too helpful?

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    Can we help we help our children make better decisions? Or, can we help our spouse achieve his goals? Yes, but sometimes we are too helpful, say Eli Finkel, a professor at Northwestern University, and Grainne Fitzsimons, a professor at Duke University, in an article “When Helping Hurts” in the May 10, 2013, issue of…

  • The world is a good place

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    Jessica Jackley is the mother of twins, who are not yet 2 years old. Every morning the twins remind her of a truth, she says. “They remind me that the world is a good place full of adventures.” I heard Jackley speak recently at an annual luncheon sponsored by the San Antonio Women Foundation. She…

  • Usually alert and ready

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    When my friend Sara started working at the Dallas Times Herald in 1976 as a copy editor, she woke up early and left her home in Richardson by 3 a.m. to travel to the newspaper’s office in downtown Dallas. By 4 a.m., she was sitting at her desk, usually alert and ready to edit the…

  • Celebrate with a child

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    During the next several weeks, we’re going to share some holiday lessons we’ve learned. When my friend Everett, who’s five-years-old, came to visit, he told me what he wants for Christmas. He sang the song he’s going to sing at his Christmas performance at preschool. Then, he announced that he wanted to play Duck, Duck,…

  • The power of fantasy

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    When my children were younger, they sometimes asked for the impossible. I remember one summer when they both decided that they wanted to go to Six Flags Over Texas and they wanted to go immediately. Because I was a single mother on a limited budget, my first reaction was to feel sad. I don’t remember…

  • Mother or marathoner?

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    If you haven’t read Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” read it now. We printed out all 28 pages. The article is long, but it is very thoughtful. No matter if you’re young and just starting a career or a little older with children in college, no matter if you’re male…

  • Tired and stressed?

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    By now the fact that an article in The Atlantic titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” brought more online response than any other article in the magazine’s history is, well, history—or herstory. But the response is solid evidence that the topic still is important and relevant to many women. My children are both…

  • The bad news and the good news

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    My son Jay just got a new car. That’s the good news. And the bad news? The third day Jay was driving the car, he called his father. “The car is okay,” he said, “but….” My husband panicked immediately. His mind leaping ahead after Jay’s first words, he feared a terrible accident. Jay had turned…