Mar 4How to Get Kids Out and About in Your TownWith some community buy-in, today's kids can have a '70s childhood. How to create a Let Grow Community I live in one of the few towns in...
Feb 10The Many Mental Health Benefits of Playing WordleAn Open Letter to The New York Times: A few weeks ago, my Facebook feed was suddenly filled with meaningless yellow, gray and green...
Dec 16, 2021Yik Yak Returns to Wilton, with Potential for Devastating ConsequencesAfter spending the day on the newly reborn app Yik Yak, I felt sick and had a pit in my stomach, exactly like 37 years ago when I found...
Nov 21, 2021Better Moods with Gratitude & ThanksgivingI recently learned that it’s “NOvember” — which means you can say NO to more things to prioritize your well-being. Go ahead and give...
Oct 8, 2021Talk to Your Tween about ‘Devious Licks’This fall, middle and high school students across the country have been filming themselves stealing soap dispensers and doing other...
Oct 4, 2021What to Do Now That TikTok’s “Devious Licks” School Vandalism Challenge Has Hit WiltonThis September, middle and high school students across the country have been filming themselves stealing soap dispensers and doing other...
Sep 30, 2021Parents are Raising Kids in Captivity, then Expecting Them to Survive in the WildWild animals in captivity quickly habituate to human care, live a sheltered life and as a result, don’t learn critical survival skills....
Mar 20, 2021Easy Remedies for Frustration and Pain - Especially in a Pandemic“March in New England” offers us two important lessons to help ease our pandemic pain and struggle.
Jan 29, 2021Feel Like You've Hit A Wall?Feel like you’ve hit a wall? Or better described - the floor? You are not alone. We. Are. Struggling. The past week and a half, I’ve been...
Jan 6, 2021New Year's ResolutionIf You Must Have Resolutions - Choose Sanity I’m sitting in the dentist’s chair and I’m trying to breathe deeply (but not too deeply) ...
Jan 5, 2021Are You Raising Kids in Captivity, then Expecting Them to Survive in the Wild?Wild animals in captivity quickly habituate to human care. Living a sheltered life, they don’t learn critical survival skills. They show...
Dec 15, 2020Struggling With Anger in your Family?Anger is a normal human emotion that gets a bad rap. It is often seen as something to suppress as it can get expressed in destructive...
Nov 20, 2020Not "Helping Mom"When you ask your child(ren) to unload groceries, empty the dishwasher or any other household chore, chose your words very carefully....
Nov 16, 2020Lockdown Drills: Trauma Instead of SafetyI feel so incredibly strongly that someday we will look back as parents and educators and realize how lockdown drills and active shooter...
Aug 28, 2020Helping kids find joy and connection at recessWilton Youth Council’s Wilton Free Play Task Force has worked for three years to educate, inspire and support parents, schools and...
Aug 20, 2020Saving Recess: Helping Our Kids Find Joy and Connection in the ‘New COVID Normal’Wilton Youth Council’s Wilton Free Play Task Force has worked for three years to educate, inspire and support parents, schools, and...
Jun 9, 2020The Body TalkThe Body Talk. The Coronavirus pandemic has caused our kids to miss out on so many milestones and rights of passage. For our town’s fifth...
May 18, 2020Assume the Good, and Your Children Will FollowAs the days, weeks, and now months of this pandemic march on, our stress levels have not relented and we parents are feeling depleted. It...
Mar 12, 2020We Need to Prepare (Not Panic) Our Kids When it Comes to the CoronavirusThe coronavirus (COVID-19), a new viral strain marked by symptoms like fever, cough and shortness of breath, was declared a pandemic by...
Mar 10, 2020Stress and Anxiety Over Coronavirus is Just as Contagious–and DamagingAfter GOOD Morning Wilton asked readers for their thoughts and anecdotes about the recent coronavirus news, Wilton resident Vanessa Elias...