Meeting the needs of our own children, the children in our extended families, friend groups, neighborhoods, and communities, and even the needs of our inner children is an important enterprise for the health and functioning of our societies and our species. Yet the effort of childcare can also be scary, lonely, backbreaking, and demoralizing. The work of childcare requires that we incorporate and integrate self-care at every step and in every context, yet this titration can be tricky. What helps you toggle between meeting your own needs and meeting the needs of children?
[image description: A large frigatebird with wings splayed wide open and a bright red throat pouch rests on a branch among a bramble of leafy branches and above a downy fledgling in a nest. In the distance and near the horizon, a heart with a quizzical facial expression stands watching the frigatebird. The frigate is having the anthropomorphic thought, "You must learn to rest in the needs of children."]
#MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
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