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Dear Number 5’s Music Teacher

April 7, 2015 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Dear Number 5’s Music Teacher, First, I have to say that this will be very difficult for me to write without using the F word. But I am keeping this as clean as possible because I really want teachers to be able to share it without getting in trouble. And we aren’t “friends”, and I really want to […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: concerts, elementary school music shows, kindergarten concerts

Ten Things You Can Do To Maintain Your Sanity And Improve Your Chances Of Raising A Productive, Independent, and Responsible Human Being

March 25, 2015 by not your average mom 11 Comments

There are no guarantees in life. And there are certainly no guarantees in parenting. But now that we are three and a half years into child Number 7, I think I’ve gotten some of the kinks worked out. And since most of us aren’t going to have seven chances to get it right, I thought […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: comparing, facebook, how to survive parenting, naps, parenting, responsibilities, rules for parenting, schedule, sleep

Weunited, and it feels so gooooood….

January 12, 2015 by not your average mom 5 Comments

Number 6 can’t pronounce his r’s. It’s vewy cute, and I’m in no rush for him to learn. On Christmas he got a little stuffed turkey. And he named it. appropriately enough, “Turkey.” Which he pronounces Tokey. Last week, we brought Tokey to the gym with us. Against my better judgement, I let Number 6 take […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: lost stuffed animals.

Do your due diligence.

January 8, 2015 by not your average mom 5 Comments

I’m just going to come right out and say it. If you have a child under the age of 18 living in your house, and you have given them a phone or an iPad or a laptop or any other sort of device they can use to communicate with other people, you should be monitoring […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: don't be stupid, monitoring your kids cell phones

Dear Lost

January 6, 2015 by not your average mom 27 Comments

The other day I received a message on the Facebook page from a reader.  I asked her if I could publish it anonymously, and write my response in a post. Because I don’t think she is alone. At all. Here is what she wrote (published with permission): Today I read your “Have you moved out […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: advice, lost, motherhood

I’m thinking big picture.

January 1, 2015 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about resolutions. About which ones I’d like to make. Or whether I want to make any at all. I think I do. But I want to change the way I think about them. I’m not calling them resolutions. Instead, I’m setting goals for myself this year. I think when we make resolutions, there […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: goal setting, New Year's Resolutions, resolutions for 2015

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