We backed off on the TV watching sometime last year. For a long time, I was really good about no TV in the morning and on school nights. Canceling the cable made it a little bit easier. Then I got my iPad and then eventually Number 3 and 4 got Kindles. We still had Netflix, […]
iPads
Smahtuh than he looks.
There is a street in my town that only people who live here know how to pronounce. A street that, when said over the phone, is pretty much never spelled correctly by someone who hasn’t driven down that road. It’s ten letters long, and if you’ve never heard anyone say it, you wouldn’t know how to read it […]
So much for that plan.
I got an iPad last December. I thought I would spend a lot of time on it, doing work for the blog. In reality, I was spending most of my time tracking down which kid had gotten a hold of it, charging it back up after one of them had completely run down the battery, […]
Pavlov’s Dogs
Number 6 is no dummy… Yesterday I wrote about him and his temper. I thought he came about it all on his own. It was an innate thing. A developmental stage. Not really anything to do with me. Yesterday he woke up from his nap and asked for my iPad. He’s got a thing for my […]
She’s no Mary Poppins, that’s for sure.
I still don’t totally know how to use my iPad. But I know how to use it to shut my kids up. They would stare at that thing and play games on it all day long if I allowed them to. I used to sit in judgement of parents who bought children under the age […]
