For Parents of Children w/Disability and Chronic Illness http://karenrayne.com Coaching, support, guidance, and a listening ear Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:13:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 “All I want is for the baby to be healthy!” http://karenrayne.com/2023/08/11/all-i-want-is-for-the-baby-to-be-healthy/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:13:28 +0000 https://karenrayne.com/?p=1682 I hear this over and over and over again. It’s tied in closely with my other career, sexuality education. People find out someone is pregnant and their first question is, “Are you having a girl or boy?” or “Do you hope it’s a girl or a boy?” And the (progressive?) answer that so many parents-to-be …

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]]> What if I don’t like my child? http://karenrayne.com/2023/06/14/what-if-i-dont-like-my-child/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:53:56 +0000 https://karenrayne.com/?p=1652 Or what if, worse, I don’t love them? Love is a many faceted thing. So is liking. Having connections with. Delighting in the presence of. All of these are many faceted. We have a cultural framework of parenthood that suggests it should be all beauty, all roses, that as parents we should be overflowing with …

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]]> Shifting Focus http://karenrayne.com/2023/06/12/shifting-focus/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:20:52 +0000 https://karenrayne.com/?p=1634 I have spent most of the last twenty years working in sexuality education, in one way or another. It’s been good for me. I hope I’ve been able to inspire many teachers and facilitators with the materials I’ve created to work with young people directly. I hope I’ve been able to provide many of the …

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]]> Very old and very new books http://karenrayne.com/2017/01/03/very-old-and-very-new-books/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:13:33 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1490 Two things have come together in my mind in this most amazing way. First, I have an office space all of my very own! My excitement about this is hard to overstate. And so that you can join me in this, here’s a picture: As I moved all of my office things from my living room into …

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]]> Who’s teaching my daughter? http://karenrayne.com/2016/05/03/whos-teaching-my-daughter/ Wed, 04 May 2016 02:19:18 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1486 My 14 year old daughter is in 8th grade…and that moment, as a sexuality educator and a parent, I had been waiting for for years finally arrived. I got THE LETTER. The one where the school district requests permission to teach my daughter sexuality education. So as all engaged parents should do, I requested to …

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]]> Sisyphean parenting http://karenrayne.com/2015/08/03/sisyphean-parenting/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:11:35 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1435 The iconic Zits comic strip, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, yesterday depicted the act of parenting a teenager as similar to the apparent curse bestowed on Sisyphus, rolling the same boulder up a hill, over and over again only to have it roll back down again. This delights me, because I made a similar …

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]]> Breaking the Hush Factor: Rule #2 http://karenrayne.com/2015/07/14/breaking-the-hush-factor-rule-2/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:09:06 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1423 I am SO happy to say that, amidst bizarre shipping delays between the publisher and the printer, the first round of softcover Breaking the Hush Factor books have been SHIPPED! If you ordered a softcover during the Indiegogo campaign, you should have received it yesterday – or maybe you’ll get it today. I hope you’ll …

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]]> Breaking the Hush Factor: Rule #1 http://karenrayne.com/2015/06/24/breaking-the-hush-factor-rule-1/ Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:40:53 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1415 Friends, it’s really happening, and I couldn’t be more excited and nervous and nervously excited. My book, Breaking the Hush Factor, is almost here. This book is written to parents, but it applies to all people who talk about sexuality with young people, and lays out ten accessible and concrete rules for how to have …

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]]> So much more about my book! http://karenrayne.com/2015/05/27/so-much-more-about-my-book/ Wed, 27 May 2015 14:09:57 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1411 Did you know that I have a book coming out? I’ve been emailing and posting information, but I wanted to give you all a more in-depth reading of the theoretical approach I use as a groundwork for the book. To that end, my friend and midwife Christy Tashjian and her wife Jenni Huntly interviewed me …

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]]> I’m looking for a dreamy manager to tell me what to do… http://karenrayne.com/2015/04/26/im-looking-for-a-dreamy-manager-to-tell-me-what-to-do/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:46:25 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=1406 But not in a sexy way. Just professional. That’s all. The good news is that my work is growing, which is so exciting! The bad news is that I can’t quite keep up. Unless that’s good news because it means YOU are the perfect person to come and work with me! I’ve thought about what kind …

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