Getting to the root of a problem

One of the things that Jacques isn’t so good at, is expressing his feelings.  His palette seems very limited: happy, sad, angry.  And while he is familiar with terms like frustrated, disappointed and worried, he never uses those words when verbalizing his feelings. So the other day when I got a note from the school saying [...]

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Children are Mirrors

Matt is always telling me the kids are sponges. I think he means that they absorb everything we are doing and learn from us.  He uses this turn of the phrase often when Oscar repeats something he’s heard.  I on the other hand think they are mirrors. There is no denying that most of the [...]

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