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    Favorite recipes, books, and TV of 2025

    by Lisa December 31, 2025
    December 31, 2025
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    2025 Highlights and Lowlights

    by Lisa December 25, 2025
    December 25, 2025

    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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    A Parent’s Guide to Navigating Pathological Demand Avoidance

    by Lisa October 7, 2025
    October 7, 2025

    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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    Monopoly and Mantras

    by Lisa September 24, 2025
    September 24, 2025

    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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    My Coworkers

    by Lisa March 17, 2025
    March 17, 2025

    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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    “The Expensive Lessons We’ve Learned About In-App Purchases” in ADDitude Magazine

    by Lisa November 14, 2024
    November 14, 2024

    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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