Mia Von Scha

Imagine that one day you wake up, get dressed, and your partner takes you by the hand and pops you in the car. Except instead of dropping you at work, the car takes off and flies to Mars. You're already confused. You were expecting somewhere familiar. When you land, he helps you out, walks you over to a group of Martians and other strangers, then turns around and leaves. Everyone else seems to know exactly what's going on. They know where to go and what to do. You don't know why you're there,...

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask. And the quality of your parenting follows the same rules. Every time you ask a question, your mind goes seeking for the answers and in so doing shapes your reality. Now as parents we are often plagued by question that arise from our own sense of self-doubt and our fears for our children. We tend to ask things like: “Am I doing the right thing?” “Am I messing up my child?” “Why can’t I get through to him/her?”...

We tend to think of parenting as a happy endeavor. Even though research tells us that in most countries people with kids are less happy than those without, we know that we have the one-up on those childless couples because we are fulfilled! But what if parenting isn’t fulfilling for you? Or what if that fulfillment isn’t enough? What if becoming a parent was the worst decision you ever made? Now we all have moments where we wonder what our life would have been like if we’d made different...