<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; parenting</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.laferle.com/tag/parenting/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.laferle.com</link>
	<description>a window on the writing life</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:00:23 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>The waiting season</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/the-waiting-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/the-waiting-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advent essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advent season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patience and waiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart of Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=17613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary, yet is wondrously present.&#8221; &#8211;Edward Hays A longer version of this essay was published in The Heart of Christmas, a Guideposts anthology. It&#8217;s also included in my book, Writing Home. &#8212; CL The Waiting Season December [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/the-waiting-season/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>School supplies for Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/school-supplies-for-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/school-supplies-for-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns on Patch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artists and writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back to school blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration for creative projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyles columnists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyles columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife reinvention stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Oak Patch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=16707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner&#8217;s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.&#8221; &#8212; Julia Cameron Remember the late-summer thrill of buying notebooks, Magic Markers, and bright yellow [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/school-supplies-for-mom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Refeathering our nest</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/refeathering-our-nest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/refeathering-our-nest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adjusting to the empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children leaving for college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyles columnists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyles columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[menopause and midlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MetroParent magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife reinvention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women at midlife]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=16509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we halfway through August already? Since &#8220;back to school&#8221; is the topic of the week (and I&#8217;m still on sabbatical), I&#8217;m sharing a piece I wrote for MetroParent not long after my son flew off to college&#8230;. Field notes on an empty nest Last week I found a bird’s nest on the brick walk [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/refeathering-our-nest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Summer Home</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buildings and shelter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Science Monitor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative play for children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit writers and journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeless population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house and garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outdoor games and recreation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outdoor play and recreation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=12167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Riding my bike on a beautiful day last week, I noticed very few kids playing outside. Made me a little sad. The following piece from my memoir, Writing Home, chronicles a late-summer memory [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Wild things</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/07/wild-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/07/wild-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cub Scout camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family vacations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Bove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconnecting with the great outdoors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild with Child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness story anthologies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=11896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.&#8221;  ~Albert Einstein I&#8217;m always tickled when my essays are chosen for new story collections. Released this summer, Jennifer Bove&#8217;s Wild with Child: Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors, includes a piece I wrote about surviving Cub Scout camp when my son was a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/07/wild-things/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Survival tips for grads</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/survival-tips-for-grads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/survival-tips-for-grads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice for graduates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college graduation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school graduation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life's milestones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife parenting topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rites of passage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=11223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.&#8221; ~Paul Freund A blog pal recently asked if any of her regular readers had a few pithy words of advice for new graduates. I was reminded of an earlier column [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/survival-tips-for-grads/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>All my children</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/all-my-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/all-my-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 12:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideals/Guideposts publications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighborhood and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrine Catholic High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing motherhood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=10979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have raised kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Brault Today&#8217;s essay first appeared on Mother&#8217;s Day 2004 in my Sunday column in The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak. At the time, my son and his longtime friends, a.k.a. &#8220;The Crew,&#8221; were preparing to graduate from high [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/all-my-children/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Parenting advice</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/parenting-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/parenting-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college prep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Wyatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Kastner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metro Parent magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother and child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senior year of high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Launching Years]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=8154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.&#8221; ~Sloan Wilson Note: This essay was published earlier this year (&#8220;A New Season of Parenting&#8221;) in Metro Parent magazine. It was written especially for friends whose [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/parenting-advice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Now on the stands</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/now-on-the-stands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/now-on-the-stands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MetroParent magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan mothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife reinvention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing motherhood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=5835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my son was growing up, I wrote pieces for parenting magazines, including Detroit&#8217;s own MetroParent. Now that I&#8217;m an empty nester, I&#8217;ve naturally moved on to other topics. But I was honored last year when the managing editor of MetroParent invited me to submit an essay on preparing for a new season of parenthood [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/now-on-the-stands/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>St. Nicholas Day</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/st-nicholas-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/st-nicholas-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essays on family life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays and traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamaze birth reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers and sons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural childbirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Nicholas Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing practice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=4705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.&#8221; &#8212; Henry W. Longfellow More than 24 years ago, my ob-gyn predicted I&#8217;d have a Christmas baby, give or take a few days. The doctor wasn&#8217;t too far off the mark, really, since Nate was [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/st-nicholas-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

