Mental Health Week: family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy

Yes, we did head off to the weekly family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy (unnamed as of yet, probably damaging the puppy’s ability to imprint or habituate to his name or something) (both of my sons were nameless for the first month of their lives…. I may be onto something here). Clover/Pocket/Lucky/Baybay [...]

Painting as family therapy: some success

Two of Tessa’s first paintings on Friday This weekend I tried a switch-up for the kids—only one item on the actual to-do list: do-it-yourself art therapy. We got our stuff together, gessoed the boards and canvasses, and away we went. I’m only showing what the artists were most pleased with. Graydon decided that as much [...]