Kids are always excited to go to the beach. Then you get there, and it takes approximately twelve seconds for the whining to begin. Here are five things you can do to keep the whining, crying, and discomfort at bay. 1) Cut the liner out of boys’ suits. Grown men might need that netting in […]
Parenting
10 Road Trip Hacks For Traveling With Kids
Last week I took a solo road trip with five of the kids to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and I’m getting ready to embark on another one to North Carolina. The trip to Hershey was only 235 miles. The trip to North Carolina is three times as long. Just under 700 miles . If we didn’t ever […]
Road Trip Hacks — First Aid/Medicine Kit
Today I’m heading out on a road trip with (most of) the kids, and it’s my first solo road trip with them. I’m not gonna lie. I’m a little bit nervous. Not for the car ride, really. I mean, yes, since we couldn’t even make it 2 miles down the road the other day before […]
The Year of No
In a little more than a month, for the first time in eleven years, all the kids will be in school five days a week. It is a moment I have been both dreading and looking forward to for quite some time now. For the last four thousand days, for every waking hour of the day, my […]
You Are Not The Only Mom
It’s about the halfway point of summer vacation here in CT. But if you are anything like me, you are way more than halfway to your breaking point, and you are starting to count down the days until school begins. You don’t really want summer to be over. Not the good parts of it. But boy do […]
Your Kid Is Probably Not In The Top .05%
Your kid is destined for greatness. Your kid is different. And every second of his or her eight or nine or ten-year-old season is determining his or her success starting…. yesterday. One misstep by a coach, one bad call, one wrong move, one unforced error, one bad event, one missed opportunity, and your kid is now […]
