Number 4 is a pretty good swimmer. She’s got natural talent and a body that is conducive to the sport. She also works her butt off. She swims year round on the Y swim team. In the summer, she also swims on the town’s rec team. And this year, as a fifth grader, she swam […]
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Long Term, At-Home, Elementary School Projects Are Bullsh*t
If you have a kid in first grade, then you and your child (but mostly you) may have just completed the (fucking) 1ooth Day of School Project. This project, along with every other long-term project that teachers assign to students to do at home, is bullshit. It’s not just the 100th Day of School Project. […]
Seven Things I learned in the Last 48 Hours
I have spent the past two days in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I came down here from CT to attend a program entitled Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way. And it was awesome. And while I’m sitting here in the Fort Lauderdale airport waiting for my delayed plane, I thought I’d share some things I discovered in […]
Newsflash: Your kids aren’t perfect. And neither are you.
Rant forthcoming. Yesterday I wrote a post about dealing with tantrums. And I received this comment: “…I’ve never experienced a kid tantruming…” It’s only part of the comment. I don’t think it was written by someone who was simply trying to get a rise out of me. I think it was written by a judgmental […]
The Domino Effect Of Giving Your Kids Responsibility
People very often say to me, “I don’t know how you do it with so many kids at home.” Sometimes I don’t know how I do it either. It’s often a shakedown cruise here at my house. But sometimes, we are a (sort of) well-oiled machine. And it’s for one reason: our kids have responsibilities […]
Because we all do stupid sh*t to get our kids to sleep at night.
Number 6 (6 years old) and Number 7 (5 years old) share a room. They are old enough that sleeping through the night isn’t an issue anymore, but young enough that they still want (and need) the whole bedtime routine. I often wonder about other peoples’ bedtime routines. Ours goes like this: Get pjs on. […]