Posts in listening

by lisahassanscott
April 21, 2016

Just like a teenager: embracing language that connects

“Just like a woman.” Someone actually said this abhorrent phrase to me this week. It’s 2016 […]
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by lisahassanscott
January 28, 2016

“When I was your age…” — connecting with our children through empathic memory

I promise, I’m really not a bad cook. In fact, I love cooking. For the past […]
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by lisahassanscott
November 26, 2015

The Lies We Tell

On Friday morning last week, one of my children came downstairs with blue teeth. I didn’t […]
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by lisahassanscott
June 22, 2015

You’ve got to get your eye in

Regular readers and Twitter followers will be well aware of my youngest child’s love affair with […]
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by lisahassanscott
June 19, 2015

All I did today

I have nothing to show for my day. If a manager came knocking on my door […]
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by lisahassanscott
May 14, 2015

Wonder

We were sitting at the table crunching our cereal yesterday morning—the twelve year old, bleary in […]
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by lisahassanscott
May 7, 2015

Worth it

“Why isn’t anybody listening to me?” Sometimes I mutter these words under my breath through clenched […]
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by lisahassanscott
January 8, 2015

On friendship

Part of the problem with becoming a new mother was that I didn’t have any friends. […]
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by lisahassanscott
August 30, 2014

Looking for what you want to see

My four year old son has an uncanny knack for finding insects. Everywhere he goes, he […]
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by lisahassanscott
May 15, 2014

Little reminders: compassion, learning and connection

Sometimes it takes little reminders to see things through my children’s eyes. I’ll be going along […]
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