For deployments lasting a year or longer, service members are often granted a week or two of leave near the middle of deployment. This R&R visit is a great opportunity to come …
Making the Most of a R&R Visit During Deployment
The Importance of Quality Sleep
We all know how important sleep is. You don’t need me to spell it out for you. But it is fascinating how the subject of sleep went from zero to everywhere overnight. …
Your Military Teenager
I counsel a lot of adolescents and teenagers and I cannot tell you how often I hear from parents that they have no idea who their teenager has become. One day they …
Modeling Being Present
You know those point-A-to-point-B drives where you arrive at your destination and realize you were completely zoned out the entire time? We are so plugged in all day, every day, that there …
Nurturing Your Military Relationship
Military couples face challenges that civilian couples do not. We learn to pivot without much notice, are constantly relocating, and reinventing ourselves and our families in new landscapes, jobs, schools and support …
Prepping Older Kids for (Another) PCS
Somewhere along the route of our PCS between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Monterey, California, our daughter (then 2 years old) had an absolute meltdown at a rest stop. Anyone who has ever …
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