What To Do When Girls Struggle to Fit In

I will never forget the first day of kindergarten for my oldest daughter. It was as if she had been training for it her entire short life, she knew what she was going to wear weeks before the actual event…and it wouldn’t even surprise me if she had...

Relational Aggression

What We Know, and What We Do About It In fifth grade, I had a friend who was my absolute bestie one day and my arch enemy the next. It became a problem for my parents when I would awaken repeatedly with a dreaded stomachache and not feel like going to school. And the...

Self-acceptance and social media

One of the first things I heard on the news this morning was a story about Instagram having a toxic effect on body image and teens. Is this really news to anyone? Having two daughters, I have watched them bounce from Instagram to Snapchat to TikTok with the same...

Why Failing is a Good Thing

If you were not afraid to fail, what would you try doing today? Fear is the most limiting factor to success. Believe me, I speak from experience. The Breadcrumbz are so much more to me than characters in stories. They represent different facets of both my life and my...