Tag: Children

• Sports, Space, Racecars, and Excavators

  

  Dear Cade, Daddy and I both, for different reasons, hoped that our first child would be a boy. I’d always dreamed of an older brother, so I thought it would be ideal for my oldest to be male, but for your sports loving Daddy he dreamed of shooting hoops and playing catch with his son…

  Laura Spaulding

  April 23, 2021

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting Teenagers, Unity in Diversity, Words to Cade

  Children, college admissions, counseling, Education, Faith, gifted and talented, grace, healing, high school, home, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, Parenting, teenagers, test scores, twice exceptional

• Sycamore Trees

  

  Dear Hallie, I feel sorry for everyone who has never discovered the intense magic and utter delight of a soak in a hot bath. There is nothing for me this side of heaven that quite compares to the sensation that spreads as I sink down and let the water engulf me. And then even after…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 7, 2021

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Hallie

  beauty, childhood, Children, covid19, Faith, grace, growing up, joy, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, teenagers

• Covid-19 Home School

  

  Dear Lacey, Every August for the last 12 years in anticipation of a new school year, the same conversations fill our home, the same shopping trips are taken, and the same prayers are prayed. Conversations that beg the questions- what if there are no friends in our classes, who will we sit with at lunch,…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 22, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  anxiety, beauty, Children, corona, covid19, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, homeschool, homeschooling, invisible illness, joy, junior year, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, middle school, Parenting, social distancing, top ten

• Junior Year

  

  Dear Kori Jane, You are 16. A high school junior. In fact, you’ve just started the second semester of your junior year. We were warned junior year would be brutal, and right about now you’d be ready to throw in the towel. You are no doubt just as sleep deprived, over committed, under nourished, and…

  Laura Spaulding

  January 18, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Kori Jane

  childhood, Children, college, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, joy, junior year, Parenting, stress, teenagers, theatre kids

• Teenagers!?

  

  Dear Lacey, About six weeks ago you turned nine years old! Almost double digits! For months I had been planning to sit down on the 30th of September and write you a lovely birthday letter about how precious and unique God has made you. I even started it at one point but never got past…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 28, 2019

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  butterflys, Children, Family, grace, growing up, high school, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, puberty, siblings, sisters, teenagers, time

• The Rain

  Dear Kori Jane, Twelve years ago almost to the day, you and I were heading to a little neighborhood carnival right by our home that we had passed that morning on our way to church. It was nothing fancy, just some hand painted wooden games set out on card tables and a bounce house or…

  Laura Spaulding

  August 4, 2019

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  Children, Faith, Family, grace, grandchildren, Grief, joy, loss, Parenting, rain

• Charm Bracelets

  

  Dear Hallie, When I was in the fourth grade, I sold enough Girl Scout cookies to win the custom-made, sterling silver, James Avery, puppy dog charm. This was back when the awards were special enough to motivate the selling of a ridiculous number of cookies. Turns out the hours of door-to-door selling followed by more…

  Laura Spaulding

  June 22, 2019

  Family and Faith, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Hallie

  cerebral palsy, Children, Disability, Faith, Family, flooding, friendship, grace, Grief, Parenting

• 8th Grade Graduation

  

  Dear Cade, This week you graduated from 8th grade. It was an emotional week for me, but not for the reasons others might expect.    I remember being emotional when your older sister walked across the 8th grade stage to receive her “most likely to be a best-selling author who inspires the world with her…

  Laura Spaulding

  May 27, 2019

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Cade

  Children, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, Learning Disabilities, Parenting, social media, twice exceptional