LisaMcKayWriting https://lisamckaywriting.com/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:33:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://lisamckaywriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Favicon-3.png LisaMcKayWriting https://lisamckaywriting.com/ 32 32 36938249 Favorite recipes, books, and TV of 2025 https://lisamckaywriting.com/favorite-recipes-books-and-tv-of-2025/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:20:27 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=9698 Favorite recipes this year Hummus – My brother and sister in law gave me the Israeli cookbook Zahav for Christmas a couple of years ago and mentioned the hummus recipe…

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]]> 9698 2025 Highlights and Lowlights https://lisamckaywriting.com/2025-highlights-and-lowlights/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:10:11 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=9601 Highlight: We started the year in Tasmania—a state I am quickly becoming convinced is my spiritual home. It was a high-impact trip that included ropes courses, ziplines, mountain biking, trout…

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]]> 9601 A Parent’s Guide to Navigating Pathological Demand Avoidance https://lisamckaywriting.com/a-parents-guide-to-navigating-pathological-demand-avoidance/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:13:19 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=8739 I published this article with ADDitude Magazine in June this year, but didn’t get around to putting it up on my own website until today…  What Is Pathological Demand Avoidance?…

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]]> 8739 Monopoly and Mantras https://lisamckaywriting.com/monopoly-and-mantras/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:01:08 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=8595 This is an excerpt from my current work in progress, from a chapter titled Monopoly and Mantras.  …By the time they were old enough for board games I was desperate…

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]]> 8595 My Coworkers https://lisamckaywriting.com/my-coworkers/ Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:53:23 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=7476 In early 2020, at the start of our second year in Australia, Mike took a consultancy as acting Country Director for an NGO in the Solomon Islands and left to…

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]]> 7476 “The Expensive Lessons We’ve Learned About In-App Purchases” in ADDitude Magazine https://lisamckaywriting.com/expensive-lessons-in-app-purchases/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:28:15 +0000 https://lisamckaywriting.com/?p=7465 The dopamine rush that comes with spending money to quickly level up in a game or access premium content is addictive. How can we help our kids navigate the temptation…

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