Author: Madeline

  • It’s Not Just A Balloon – Building Trust With Your Children

    It’s Not Just A Balloon – Building Trust With Your Children

    Full disclosure: I’m not a parent, but I get asked for advice about parenting and children all the time. I admit that it’s a little weird, but I guess being a nanny who helps to raise other people’s children makes people trust me with theirs. Trust is a short word with an important definition, not…

  • To My College Freshmen Self

    To My College Freshmen Self

    Right now, it may feel like life can’t get any more challenging. I know it seems scary, overwhelming, desperately lonely and incredibly expensive. Going grocery shopping by yourself for your own kitchen in your first apartment seems like a monumental task. I know, I’ve been there (and I still called my mom so she could…