Mary Katharine Ham

Jun 28, 2024 | foxnews.com | Mary Katharine Ham

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Going into Thursday’s debate, I said the two candidates would have to fight their own worst tendencies to reassure voters. Rusty from years off the debate stage, they’d have to reach out to that double-hater demographic, suburban doubters and independent voters. This small sliver of voters that remains undecided needed to be reassured in different ways.

Mar 22, 2024 | mkhammer.substack.com | Mary Katharine Ham

Ignoring your kids is good. Hear me out. I am ignoring my children as I write this. And lest you think I am just cruising through the carefree days of older kid-dom, during which they become semi-capable and don’t need our constant hovering, I will have you know I’m currently ignoring a 1- and 2-year-old. That, my friends, is a feat hard-earned through years of practice. To be sure, the ignoring is not perfect.

Mar 18, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Ryan Manion |Mary Katharine Ham

In this special collection of episodes, Ryan Manion, CEO of Travis Manion Foundation, explores her deep journey with grief over the last 16 years and how grief has transformed her life. Through her own personal experiences with grief, Ryan is sharing her lessons learned to help others on their grief journey. If you are struggling with grief, supporting someone in grief, or simply learning about grief, this is for you.

Feb 29, 2024 | mkhammer.substack.com | Mary Katharine Ham

I’ve written over the years about my experience with grief after losing my late husband, Jake. I hope that putting the unimaginable into words, no matter how insufficient, makes the incomprehensible a little less so. I’ve written less about how to help a friend who is hurting. But people ask about it often. It’s understandable. Someone you know just has just met up with mortality and you don’t know how to respond. Maybe you’re afraid to reach out. Maybe you’re worried you’ll say the wrong thing.

Jan 6, 2024 | outkick.com | Mary Katharine Ham

In the early 20th century, influential Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget developed an exercise to gauge the egocentrism of young children. Piaget was trying to make sense of cognitive development using what came to be known as the Three Mountain Problem. In the experiment, a child was presented with a 3-D model of three mountains, all with different heights and signifiers— snow on one peak, a little house perched upon another.