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October 11, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Kristofer is in eighth grade this year, and he decided to join the cross country team, mainly because Ingrid was on it last year and she had a lot of fun and also did really well, and I think he felt like he was missing out on something. Plus it’s a short season, it doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: disappointment, Failure, helping children deal with disappointment, helping your kids handle failure

Dealing With Disappointment Takes Practice. Lots And Lots Of Practice.

June 2, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I think some of us might need a reminder. Or a reality check. Or whatever you want to call it. Due to a whole bunch of snow days and then an unanticipated macroburst that closed school for five days a couple weeks ago, our last day of school is June 29th. That’s about two weeks […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: disappointment, helping children deal with disappointment, overprotecting your kids

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