by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 13, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
Two years after I had graduated from college, I discerned that I was going to work and live in solidarity with the marginalized. I didn’t want to just work at a free clinic and then go home to my nice apartment. I wanted to be alongside the marginalized. I looked into...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 12, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Anxiety in children is on the rise. Here I talk straight and get real about it. I talked to a dad in coaching who shared with me that he and his wife were struggling with their middle school-aged child. He had increasingly become anxious and even “OCD” about things,...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 10, 2018 | Regarding Our Children
The other day, I stood there listing out to my son the things he had to do before he left for soccer practice and what he should be doing with his time. And then I just stopped. I stopped talking. I stopped time-keeping. I stopped nagging. I stopped micromanaging....
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 8, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Last night I needed to talk less and listen more. My family knows that I am not at my best at night. I am tired and sensitive. And yet it’s at bedtime that my children often want to talk. Sometimes I can barely handle it. I get more easily triggered. I don’t respond...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 6, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
We’re going to talk about something hard today: preventing child sexual abuse. I lived in Boston at the time when the first child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church broke and became public. Like many people, I was shocked, disgusted, and angry. It was...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 14, 2018 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Part 2 of 2: I was that new kid sitting alone at the lunch table. I shared part 1 of the story here. I thought I was the “only one,” but it turns out that this story resonated with millions of people. There’s more to the story. Today, I’m sharing what...
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