Parenting With Heart And Humor
The Meaning and Pronunciation of "Hygge": On this cool fall morning, I am cozied up next to the fireplace with my computer, a hot cup of coffee and my favorite music filling the air. Do you know what this is? This IS HYGGE! Hygge is one of the “hot” buzz words of our time. Not many can pronounce View Post
How to Embrace Hygge on a Budget: You’ve seen the memes about how awesome it must be to live in Denmark, right? When I tell people that I left Denmark at my own free-will when I was 18 years old, they look at me like I have three heads. Clearly no-one in their right mind would ever leave the View Post
Christmas is about upholding and creating traditions. Every year families bring out ornaments and decorations that have been with them for years, possibly even generations. There are certain iconic images that in an instant will take us back in time.For me, it is the Danish Christmas heart that View Post
Today's post is a guest submission from Patricia Dimick. She has written a number of articles for me. Her articles are always timely and well-received.With such busy schedules, families spend too little quality time together these days. From school and tutoring time to extracurricular View Post
Americans are busy people. We run to and fro at a high rate of speed. We over-schedule our days all in an effort not to miss anything. We thrive on productivity, a concept that is often confused with “a lot of harried movement.” As a culture we unfortunately no longer value “downtime”/ “free time” View Post
As we face the time of year where the days are shorter and the nights are longer, there is nothing more comforting as family time around a table decorated with lit candles. In Danish we call this “hygge”, which is a way to describe a cozy ambiance. With all that said, what is more Danish, cozy and View Post
“I just want him to be happy!”, how many times have you as a parent thought that about your child? From a parenting perspective, “happiness” is the greatest measure of success. Every single day we are a faced with opportunities to thoroughly screw up our kids, but at the end of the day, if they go View Post
Join me for a trip down memory lane, please. Back to a time where the size of my awkwardly large feet were rivaled only by my enormous and frizzy permed hair. My oversized teeth were covered in metal braces, and I was desperately waiting for the teenage years to pass. The year was circa 1988 and the View Post
I LOVE this time of year. The sense of familiarity and comfort that comes from honoring age-old traditions reassures us that all is well in the world. Today we brought home our family’s annual Christmas tree. We hung the handmade ornaments: the snowmen with all the fake snow worn off, the glass View Post
Nature has always played a big role in my life. I am a collector! My Stone Age ancestry doesn’t deny itself. My whole family consists of gatherers. In my childhood, we would go for walks and bring home flower sprouts for the garden, which my mother stole in other people´s gardens (– because to her View Post
