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Mom Lesson #486

April 6, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Number 4 has secured fairly regular babysitting jobs for two different families. Every job she’s done so far has been from about 5 or 6 p.m. to 10 or 11 p.m. She’s there for a couple hours, gets the kids dinner or dessert, puts them to bed, and then has some time to chill out. […]

Filed Under: Humor, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: baby, babysitting jobs for kids, jobs for kids, lessons for moms, playdates

Nuts About The Fair

September 5, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Every year since I was a kid, we have gone to the Goshen Fair in Goshen, CT. It’s an agricultural fair held every Labor Day weekend, and it’s about forty-five minutes away from our house. They have animals and tractor/horse/oxen pulls. They’ve got woodcutting and pie eating contests and horseback riding and bunnies and pigs […]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: avalanche, baby, cliff hanger, Goshen Fair, merch by amazon, rides, unicorn

Help! My Kid Is Fighting Me On Everything And I Don’t Know How To Deal With It!

February 16, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago, I received this email from a reader: I could use some advice! My two year old has been acting up ridiculously lately and I’m due any day now with our second child and idk if he senses the new baby and has been acting out the past two months or if […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: anger, baby, hitting, kicking, positive discipline, reader, tantrums, toddlers

The Hardest Part of Parenting

December 9, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

You know what the hardest part of being a parent is? It’s not getting through those first couple months after the baby is born. It’s not colic. It’s not the teething stage. It’s not the breastfeeding. It’s not sleep training or potty training. It’s not the terrible twos or the trying threes or the fucking […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: baby, Barbie, colic, hardest part, parenting, pretending, teething, terrible, twos

I’m having a baby… How much sh*t do I really need?

September 20, 2016 by not your average mom 8 Comments

Last week a reader sent me this question: I recently found it I am pregnant and my first thought was of ALL. THE .STUFF… My husband and I are not the type to fill our house to the brim but we have no experience to tell us what’s a waste of money and what we’ll really […]

Filed Under: Advice Tagged With: baby, baby bjorn, baby products, baby toys, exersaucer, pack and play

I’m Ready For The Next Chapter

July 7, 2016 by not your average mom 7 Comments

The other day at the town beach I watched a woman with three kids, one of them a two-year-old, attempting to unload all the kid crap from her car. She had her hands full. Literally. She had a stroller and more than one beach bag and an umbrella and sand toys and a whole assload of other kid […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: Amazon, baby, bathroom, beach, chaos, coffe, coffee, curse, I'm ready, kinderarten, occasional curse word, parking lot, shower, t-shirts, word

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