For those of you who are waiting to make it through the stage where your kid doesn’t sleep through the night, or the playing-in-the-toilet phase, or the potty training phase, or the saying-no-to-everything-you-ask-her-to-do phase, I have a little newsflash for you. It doesn’t get easier. In fact, it gets harder. Yes, it’s exhausting to get [...]
Since I have made the commitment to stop yelling, something interesting has happened. I have become much more mindful of how I speak to the kids. And consequently, I experienced another revelation… There are two words I overuse with the kids: No and later. Those two words pretty much automatically fly out of my mouth before the [...]
I’ve said a lot of things I never dreamed I would say since becoming a parent. You know, like We do not smell each other’s butts. and Why is there a tampon in the Christmas tree? and Is that poop on the refrigerator? But yesterday I said something that I never in a million years imagined [...]
My friend’s daughter taped this note to her bedroom door today. She is seven. Going on seventeen, apparently. You know, this not yelling thing would be much easier if all of my kids would make these signs and put them on their doors. Either that, or, wait… I’ve got a better idea. I’ll make [...]
