Hi Readers! I just wanted to let you know that I am moving Taking the Lid off the Sun over to Blogger.com, effective in the next 24 hours.  The url will be the same, (http://takingthelidoffthesun.com) but it will point to the new blogspot site. Huge...

I got slapped by my son three times yesterday.     Lucas has always struggled with … wait, no … I have always struggled with Lucas feeling a bit too big for his britches. Walking that fine line of helping him own and express his power while...

Did anyone else have a very strange night’s sleep the night before last? That would have been Saturday night, the 19th. Lucas woke up in crazy crying fits from 11pm until 2:30ish. When he first started to wail and cry, I went in his room to soothe...

While this post has very little to do with raising a crystal child, it has everything to do with my process of helping other parents who are raising crystal children. Therefore, call it a tangent, but it stays. My thoughts are a bit scattered, as they...

As parents, when we think of our own nightmares, we think of dreams that frighten or disturb us in some way. We assume it’s just our imagination taking us down some dark alleys we’d rather avoid. We trust that “It’s not real,” and that knowledge...