Karin Schimke

Children watch and learn from your actions far more than your words. If you’re consistently showing up for yourself and your family, focusing on positive thinking and solutions rather than just seeing problems, they’ll learn how to think and act with grit’.

But darkness only lasts till dawn.

must be done, but cutting the umbilical cord hurts both the mother and the child.

must be done, but cutting the umbilical cord hurts both the mother and the child.

Children do not come with a guidebook. Teenagers are not delivered with a pack of sedatives for each of their parents

considering the reality of life in the rest of the world, things there aren’t so rose-coloured either. And the grass isn’t as green ‘over there’ as we dream it to be.

function best around a fire, under a tree, in multigenerational, diverse groups, watching o

screens and high walls, divorced, dysfunctional or simply alone, into our Netflixes and Uber deliveries and away from shared spaces, we seem to have lost that essential comforting magic and the natural, potent, healing and helping

As Hayley Reichert said, ‘Children watch and learn from your actions far more than your words.

raising families is easier when you are not alone. It takes a Village, after all.