Christine Carter's Blog, page 4
April 21, 2020
Comfort Yourself Today
“I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.” ― Mahatma Gandhi This whole global pandemic thing is tricky: Most of us are tired and triggered and hopped up on sugar. Even if we’re healthy and enjoying the slower pace of life, this situation is pretty brutal. …
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April 9, 2020
Parenting in the time of COVID-19
People keep asking me for “best practices” for sheltering-in-place. My honest answer: We don’t know what the best practices are. We’ve never been through this before. We’re all just making it up as we go along. We’re all just doing the best that we can. In that spirit, I offer this video, an interview with …
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April 1, 2020
How Divorced Parents Can Get on the Same Page
Dear Christine, I’m a divorced dad who remarried, with a son and a stepdaughter. When shelter-in-place hit and school was canceled, everything changed. We all started working at home—or not working at all. Though we have successfully established a new custody schedule so that there is less back-and-forth between houses, we still have a lot …
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Dear Christine: How Can Divorced Parents Get on the Same Page During COVID-19?
Dear Christine, I’m a divorced dad who remarried, with a son and a stepdaughter. When shelter-in-place hit and school was canceled, everything changed. We all started working at home—or not working at all. Though we have successfully established a new custody schedule so that there is less back-and-forth between houses, we still have a lot …
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March 31, 2020
Live Q&A Today
I’m looking forward to our live Q&A today! We’ve decided to do this as a phone call to minimize technical problems and drops. And that way you can maybe go outside for a walk while you participate (or perhaps pace around your living room). I’ll begin by giving tips for supporting teens through …
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Live Q&A on Thursday
I’m looking forward to our live Q&A Thursday! We’ve decided to do this as a phone call to minimize technical problems and drops. And that way you can maybe go outside for a walk while you participate (or perhaps pace around your living room). I’ll begin by giving tips for supporting teens through …
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March 25, 2020
Have Dinner Together
Tonight, have dinner together. Shared meals deepen our connections with one another, and give us the sense that we are part of something larger than ourselves. Social distancing is an opportunity to foster more meaningful connections in our own homes. Normally, dinnertime can be a sore subject for families that crave time together but can’t …
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March 24, 2020
Coronavirus: The 1st Few Weeks
Holy smokes, friends! Perhaps foolishly, I came outta the gates pretty hot last week. On Monday, I posted an article optimistically titled How School Closures Can Strengthen your Family. “Embrace not being so busy,” I wrote. “With no athletic events and no commute and no pickups and dropoffs, we parents have a lot more time on …
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March News
Holy smokes, friends! Perhaps foolishly, I came outta the gates pretty hot last week. On Monday, I posted an article optimistically titled How School Closures Can Strengthen your Family. “Embrace not being so busy,” I wrote. “With no athletic events and no commute and no pickups and dropoffs, we parents have a lot more time on …
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March 23, 2020
Coping with Disrupted Routines
Are you following along with our daily routine make-over? (In other words: Are you trying to keep everything from going to hell in a handbasket?) Most of us are feeling like our routines have all been upended by the school closures and by working at home. But this could be an amazing opportunity to establish …
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