Tag: college

• The Relativity of Success

  

  Dear Cade, Two decades ago, when you first entered the world, I wasn’t much older than you are now. I was young, naïve, and full of hopes, dreams, and expectations of the kind of man you’d become one day! Slowly but surely, you’ve blow every one of those hopes, dreams, and expectations to bits! When…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 21, 2025

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

  ADHD, adult children, belonging, Children, college, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, grace, graduation, growing, growing up, joy, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, motherhood, mothers, neurodiversity, Parenting, seasons, siblings, son, strength, success, truth, twice exceptional

• A Weary World Rejoices

  

  Dear Cade, Nothing about December 2022 has felt Christmassy. Maybe it was starting the month missing you and your sister as you finished your first semesters of college. Or maybe it’s Dad’s job demanding more of him than any of us like to spare. And then there was my bright idea to trade in rogue…

  Laura Spaulding

  December 27, 2022

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

  bird, birds, Children, christmas, college, Faith, Family, grace, Grief, holidays, joy, Parenting, parrotlet, pets, son, teenagers, twice exceptional

• 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