Somewhere along life’s path something happens. There is an invisible line that you cross. A switch that gets flipped. And you inevitably go from semi-cool parent to really-cranky-old-person-who-forgets-the-first-seventy-five-years-of-your-life. I’m really hoping I manage to avoid crossing this line. But I know how I am now. I can’t remember what day it is most of the time. […]
Parenting
Dear Number 5’s Music Teacher
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 […]
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 […]
The Six Stages of Potty Training
When my husband and I got married, Number 1 was seven and Number 2 was 4. I missed the whole potty training thing with them. When Number 3 was about two years old, I started the potty training with him. We got one of those pottys that made music every time pee hit the bowl. […]
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 […]