I was reminded of this while booking an airline ticket. I'd found the perfect flight at a price that fit my budget. Halfway through booking, an error message appeared: That fare is no longer available. If I wanted the exact same seat on the exact same flight, I'd have to pay significantly more. My heart started pounding. I started sweating. The voice in my head screamed, "That's it. I'm never traveling again." Nothing dangerous had happened. Yet my body reacted as though it h

Photo of Sari starting to flip out. Last week, someone asked me for tools to help parents stay calm when their children are melting down. I answered, "Tell them to go ahead and flip out." The room got quiet. Why would I say that? Because I'm tired of parenting advice that holds parents to the impossible standard of staying calm no matter what. We are constantly told to breathe deeply, regulate our emotions, and respond with endless patience. And aren't parents human? Don't we

Nothing tests a parent's patience more than a child in a gift shop during a fun, but long excursion day.

Parents ask me this a lot. They describe the behavior: 🤯lying 🤯refusal 🤯defiance

Business teams don’t run smoothly because everyone is trying harder .They run smoothly because there are policies, procedures, and routines in place. Imagine a company where: Employees have to be reminded to log into their email every morning Meetings start only after someone tracks people down No one knows the steps for submitting an expense report It’s a systems problem . Yet at home, we parents often operate without systems while managing more emotional intensity, unpredi

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I do not intend to belittle the very real harassment and microaggressions people experience at work. HR exists to address those issues,...

I saw this Facebook post yesterday on Thanksgiving. Being a mother is literally the most unfulfilling, unrewarding job in the world. ...