Lefty Parent

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Living & parenting without the rule book

Archive for January, 2010

The Phase

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Coop Headshot 1FYI… a number of circumstances have kept me from posting these last few weeks, but hopefully I am back to regular posts…

Starting in early July of 1996 just prior to her seventh birthday, our daughter Emma had her world disrupted by a series of calamities over the next two years that profoundly shook her world and led eventually to a severe separation anxiety that she, her mom and I would come to refer to as “The Phase”. Somehow I think giving this issue a name and referring to it almost as an entity unto itself, helped Emma finally put it behind her and move forward with her life. (more…)