Today’s post is short and sweet because it’s 8:17 pm and the kids (and Number 7 in particular) are waiting for me to watch Little House On The Prairie (we are on Season 6 and Laura and Almonzo are going to become an item at some point in this season and they are super anxious […]
Parenting
Day 31: Breaking Through The Chrysalis
We went to my parents’ house today for an Easter egg hunt. They still live in my childhood home about 25 minutes away from where I live now. It’s about the only tradition we’ve hung on to for all the kids every year at Easter, and my parents have an awesome yard which is perfect […]
Day 27: GOOD
I was introduced to Jocko Willink a couple years ago. He’s a retired Naval officer and former Navy SEAL and now he runs a super successful consulting firm. He’s also written a couple of really successful books and has his own Podcast — the Jocko Podcast. My first introduction to Jocko was the book he […]
Day 25: Twelve Things You Can Do To Make Distance Learning More Manageable
If the demands of working from home combined with your kids’ having mandatory distance learning is throwing you for a loop, I get it. I’ve got five kids at home in grades 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9, and all of them are receiving instruction via Google Classroom. This works well for my oldest three […]
Day 21: Baking With Children (aka Immersion Therapy)
We have been doing a lot of baking. Apparently so have lots of other people, because when I went to the grocery store last weekend, there was no baking powder anywhere. That was something I wasn’t anticipating a shortage of. But my dad came to the rescue and found some at WalMart when he had […]
Day 20: A Message For The Teachers
Number 6 is nine years old and in 4th grade. Of all the kids, he is struggling the most with distance learning. He has very little tolerance for frustration, and his default reaction is crying. I often call it rage crying. He goes from zero to a hundred in like 3 seconds. I think wrestling […]