When you first start your family you soon realize that you have to determine what traditions you will carry over and make your own especially around the holidays. Christmas is a tricky holiday - especially if like me you were raised Buddhist? 

When toddlers cry. I remember crying as a small child and my father say "What are you crying for? I'll give you something to cry about!" I learned a lot about crying from my son in those early years, and I got some sage advice along the way.

I learned to bake pies from my father at a very early age, its still something I cherish doing today and now I am passing down these skills to my son, but its more than that - its about making connections.

i wrote this blog when my son was two. Everyone knows and hears about the "terrible twos" and it just looms around us as parents leading up to these years.

This is the first blog I wrote in this series, with every blog you will see how my parenting is influenced by my father and the circumstances in the times we live today. This is not an instruction book to parenting, I don't claim be be an expert, I am jus