Archive for January, 2012
New ebook and new workshop series…
My new ebook has only been available a few hours and I am already receiving queries about whether I will be doing workshops on this topic. Yes, I will be available to give half day and full day recovery workshops on this topic. Contact me by email at brendamccreight@gmail.com if you are interested in booking [...]
Recovery From Hazardous Parenting…
Check out my newest e book – I hope it helps you! You can get it here. Have your best day possible.
Pondering things…
I’ve been busy the last few days – away and not much time at home. It’s funny to go away because even one day changes my perspective. It seems like it gives me an opportunity to stand back and take a look at myself and the about my parenting that I could do differently, more [...]
Last night on tv I watched a documentary called Return To Sender. It’s about the adoption of a young girl and her brother from Romania in 1991. The mother was a widow with 8 children, and one who recently died. The family lived in extreme poverty and the mother, seeking a better life for her [...]
Here’s thing I miss about our acreage – the chickens! Weird eh.. I never expected that although I am an animal lover, I hadn’t really thought I’d formed an attachment to the chickens – they certainly hadn’t formed any attachment to me. Yet, they were the best entertainment in my life- I loved watching them [...]
This article talks about how stress shrinks the brain. When I read it, I had an image of my brain looking like a walnut – small and hard – no plasticity left in it at all after all the years of stress from Hazardous Parenting. My reverie was interrupted by the after school arrival of [...]
I really think I should be writing a hockey blog instead of an adoptive parent blog. I mean, really, another out of town hockey tournament this weekend has half the family gone leaving the other half (me) still trying to clean up after our basement flood earlier this week. As the hockey kids get older, [...]
The blame game…
I know that I’ve made mistakes as a parent. Why shouldn’t I? I make mistakes in every other area of my life and so why should parenting be excluded? Parenting, as you know so well, is very hard to do. There’s no time off and it’s a constant learning curve – and for folks like [...]
