Three things occurred recently that have given me glad pause. 1st, my young friend Danny told me that he liked The Yes Child because it was a book about a child raising “philosophy” and not “child psychology.” My thought was, who in the hell reads about philosophy these days…or who reads books at all? But [...]
Relating to the previous post about a fabulous night of live music at the 930 Club last night…In a former lifetime I was the lead singer in the DC based new wave band Urban Verbs. We did two LPs for Warner Bros Records released in ’80 and ’81. The first LP had a song on [...]
Marcy and I spent a really cool evening together last night listening to one of her favorite bands at the legendary 930 Club here in DC. We initially came together and fell in love around music and I realized how long it had been since just the two of us had done something like this. [...]
My own father had an expression he used at times to let me know that he thought I was “alright.” He’d pronounce it in the car when it was just the two of us, or occasionally out of the blue for no reason that I could determine. He’d say, “Handsome boy, intelligent boy!” and it [...]
A few days ago I got a message on one of my social networking sites that really made my day! It read, “Rod Frantz is my HERO!” (no kidding). The message was posted by one of my younger son’s friends, Daniel, someone that we had lost touch with in recent years and it just came [...]
Marcy and I have been talking a lot about our recent realization that the Second Essential in our book The Yes Child, “Create Your Own Family Culture” is so prominent. Marcy observed that people have an “inherited family culture”, but can create a “unique family culture.” This is a subject we look forward to discussing [...]
In our book, The Yes Child, I talk about a group of words that we came to rely on at a stressful period in our lives. Those words are Kind, Gentle, Loving, Calm. Camila Batmanghelidjh, a psychotherapist and founder of the children’s charity, Kids Company had this to say about calm in an article on [...]
Recently I was looking at some baby pictures of Charlie, and I remembered how much he made me laugh even if he was being challenging. In my reverie I also remembered how difficult it could be to realize I needed to take care of myself. It usually seemed that I had to be at my wit’s end to recognize what [...]
Yesterday, I saw a balloon that had been let go, and I watched it’s size diminish rapidly as it sailed quickly away from me. The red circle looked like a polka dot on the blue sky and it’s string looked like a silver thread, blinking the reflected sunlight. I thought of Max then, traveling about the [...]
Max called me this morning from Baltimore where he is visiting friends. “Mom, I think I lost my wallet.” He described to me that he had been sleeping on a couch next to an open window on the ground floor of an apartment. He had looked in the obvious places and had retraced his thinking from [...]
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