The Empty Nest
How can parents cope with an ’empty nest,’ when their children are gone, live with a partner, are married, or live across the country?
Shelley Bernhard shares her experiences with her son growing up.
Parenting
Social Norms
Social norms create powerful influences on people’s behavior through expectations of others. How can we adapt these norms to fit our lives?
A Plea For Humanity: The Importance of Wearing a Mask
Wearing a mask in this time of the Coronavirus is not a political issue, it is a humanitarian issue. Author Shelley Bernhard discusses the importance of wearing a mask.
Bring Out The Best In Others
Both children and adults need and want praise. They want to feel special. In today’s society it seems that everyone wants to be “somebody.” However, social media can often give us a false sense of how people are feeling and for what they are doing.
Unnecessary Labels
This is the beautiful baby, Magnolia Earl, who was chosen as the new Gerber baby for 2020. As I read more about this little darling, I saw that she was chosen as the first “adopted” Gerber baby. My next thought…why was the label “adopted” even used? I would not have known whether or not any … Read more
Protests and Pandemic
Racism is destructive on every level…the most destructive problem in our world, and as we are seeing, it affects every one of us. Situations are rarely black and white.
Creativity, Beauty, Mindfulness
Watching children play and create new things with their imaginations in a world with COVID-19 is inspiring and reminds us as adults to take time to be creative and play.
Over The Top
More than ever – or at least we are hearing more about it – our children are stressed! We have a society of children filled with anxiety and depression…often times crippling.
An Open Door Policy
How do you get to know your children’s friends…really know them? I talk about the importance of this in my book. I believe one of the ways is to have an open-door policy in your home.
The Importance of Grandparents
During my latest book signing, a grandmother with two young grandsons purchased a book, and we talked about the importance of grandparents…in her case a grandmother.