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 […]
Lessons I've Learned
Ten Things You Can Do To Maintain Your Sanity And Improve Your Chances Of Raising A Productive, Independent, and Responsible Human Being
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 […]
Weunited, and it feels so gooooood….
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 […]
Do your due diligence.
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 […]
Dear Lost
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 […]
I’m thinking big picture.
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 […]