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Your Kid Is Not The Only One

June 15, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last night I ran a mini Positive Discipline workshop for the local moms club. And one of the first things I did was ask the moms to make a list of their biggest parenting challenges. You know, real button-pushing behaviors. 90% of the moms in attendance had kids who were 4 years old or younger. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: behaviors, biting, blankie, challenges, challenging, hitting, infuriating, lying, positive discipline

If it isn’t my kid, it’s gonna be someone else’s.

December 5, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

About a week ago, I received a message from a woman I have never met. She informed me that although Number 4 had actually spoken to her daughter, she had told a couple of her daughter’s friends that Santa Claus wasn’t real, and then she continued with, “I was hoping maybe you could ask her […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: lying, Number 4, Santa, school, truth

If My Kid Is Being An Asshole, I Want You To Tell Me

July 9, 2015 by not your average mom 76 Comments

In the past couple weeks I have found myself in a few different awkward positions where I haven’t quite known what the right thing to do is. In one situation, one of my kids got hurt by a friend’s kid.  Like struck in the head with a rock. Should I say something? It was an accident. I knew […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: asshole, cheating, dating, drugs, illegal, lying, party, period, permission, pregnant, sex

If at first you don’t succeed…

March 30, 2013 by not your average mom 3 Comments

So I did it again. Yesterday I started a sentence with “When I was a kid…” This getting older crap sucks. Anyway. When I was a kid, you had some respect for the teacher. About 10 years ago when I taught 4th grade  I had a student who was pretty much doing nothing in school. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: consistency, honesty, lying, parenting, responsibility

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

February 15, 2013 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Somewhere between the ages of 2 and 3 your kid discovers the concept of lying. You know, like this kid. If you don’t know who he is, his mom put a video of him trying to lie his way out of eating a bunch of sprinkles on YouTube. He’s become a viral sensation. And he’s reached that wonderful […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: BMI, kid eating sprinkles, lying, sprinkles, weight loss

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