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Let nature take its course.

October 18, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Someone asked me about natural consequences yesterday. Natural consequences are unbelievably useful and effective in helping our kids (and ourselves!) learn valuable lessons about accountability and responsibility. But they are largely underutilized because we as parents so often have a hard time letting our kids be uncomfortable or deal with disappointment. First I think it’s important to make […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: dignity, fuck up, kindness, positive discipline, problems, repsect, solutions, umbrealla, yelling

Not mistakes. OPPORTUNITIES.

October 4, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

My great grandmother was a strong, tough and opinionated woman with a thick Swedish accent. And I was completely intimidated by her. She was a good lady. She was more of a mother to my mom than her actual mother was. But she had a very hard shell, and I never felt like I was able to crack […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bucket, fuck up, grandmother, great grandmother, mistakes, porch, spanx

Dear Ryan Lochte

August 21, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I have been thinking about you a lot lately. There’s obviously quite a bit of speculation going on as to what the hell really happened with you and your buddies down in Rio. Whether you just embellished a story or you twisted some of the facts or the whole thing was bullshit from beginning to end, at […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: dear, fuck up, fucked up, ryan lochte

Mom, What The Heck Are You Talking About???

May 12, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Every year Number 5 and 6’s school does this 26-Days-Of-School-Left countdown where each day has a theme which is related to a letter of the alphabet. You  start with “A” day and work your way down to “Z” day on the last day of school. Number 5 is the girliest of my girls, and she […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: calendar, elegant day, elementary school spirit days, fuck up, momfail, Number 5

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