If you’ve been following the blog for more than 2 days, you know that I stopped yelling at my kids a couple months ago. And a post I wrote about that was published on Scary Mommy. And a whole bunch of ladies were pissed. More than one said, I call bullshit. They said if they didn’t […]
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Why I Don’t Bring My Preschoolers to Birthday Parties
Number 5 and 6 are both in preschool. Number 5 is in a 4’s class, and Number 6 is in a 3’s class. If you have kids this age, you know what that means. Invitations to at least 197 birthday parties throughout the school year. Back when Number 3 was in preschool and I was […]
You can have 18 ridiculous birthday parties. Or… you can go to college.
So what happened to actually making a kid wait for stuff? You know how I feel about birthday parties. A Chuck E. Cheese birthday party would have been a really big fucking deal for me when I was a kid. It is not a big deal for most kids now. It’s an expectation. When did […]