by Pam Hernandez | Apr 8, 2016 | Career, Children, Front Page, Generations, Mothers
“I so wish I could give my girls a more just world, but I know you’ll make it a better place.” Marmee to Meg and Jo in Little Women At more than one women’s gathering lately, I have heard Baby Boomer women lament that Millennial women don’t seem to appreciate the...
by Pam Hernandez | Apr 4, 2016 | Children, Fathers, Front Page, Mothers, self confidence
When my girls were young, one of their favorite books was The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch. The Paper Bag Princess. Quick storyline: Elizabeth, a beautiful princess, lives in a castle and wears fancy clothes. Just when she is about to marry Prince Ronald, a...
by Pam Hernandez | Mar 20, 2016 | Boundaries, Front Page, Mothers, Relationships
Mending Wall is the title of one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost. (scroll down for full verse) There are two seemingly contradictory lines in it that I love. The first: “Good fences make good neighbors,” which means when we stay on our side of the fence, we’re...
by Pam Hernandez | Mar 11, 2016 | ebook, Front Page, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance, self confidence
Many years ago when my daughters were quite little, the younger one came running into the house full speed a few yards in front of her older sister. She breathlessly told me, “I said I was sorry – I said I was sorry (pause) and sorry does cut it.” Her older sister had...
by Pam Hernandez | Mar 5, 2016 | Career, Change, ebook, Front Page, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance, self confidence
Dorothy Gale traveled all over Oz picking up a motley crew of friends and enemies as she and Toto searched high and low for someone to help her get home to Kansas and Auntie Em. In the end, as she begged for help from the Good Witch Glinda, she finally realized that...
by Pam Hernandez | Mar 3, 2016 | Change, Front Page, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance, self confidence
Most of us don’t like to think about change much less actually change. I recently conducted a workshop I called, “It’s All About that Change,” and began it with this Meghan Trainor video where she hilariously uses her own hit, “It’s All About that Bass” to illustrate...