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It’s Cliche But It’s True

June 17, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Today was Number 5 and 6’s birthday and also Number 3’s 8th grade moving up ceremony. I’ll get to the birthdays tomorrow. Today was very busy and very tiring and I just wanna go to bed but I am 4 for 4 with 4 posts in 30 days, and I am on a massive action […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: 8th grade graduation, last day of school, middle school, time flies

Number 4’s debut and a new feature on the blog!

December 6, 2016 by not your average mom 5 Comments

A month or so ago I wrote a post declaring that I wanted to start reading again. Before I had kids I used to read all the time. Then the kids came, and they kept coming, and I didn’t have the time or the desire or the energy to read anything for a sustained period of […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: book review, middle school, Number 4, out of my mind, reading, Sharon Draper, swimming

Mom, what if I don’t get into the high class?

May 22, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Number 3 is in the middle of standardized testing at school. He came home last week really worried. “Mom, my teacher told me that if we didn’t get a high score we wouldn’t get put in the high classes next year.” Ugh. “But she said if we aren’t in a high class one year, we can […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: AP, master's degree, mental health and children, middle school, standardized testing, stress, stress in preteens, yoga

In expanded notation that would be (8 * 10) + (4 * 1)

October 20, 2015 by not your average mom

The transition from 4th grade to 5th grade in the school district I live in can be tough for some kids. The social and independent part of it has been great for Number 3. And the homework hasn’t been too bad either. But the pace of the math program is really hard for him. That’s […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: district, elementary school, homework, math, math practice, math test, middle school, test

Raising the bar.

September 3, 2015 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I’ve been talking a lot about Number 6 and his transition into kindergarten this week, but one of the other kids has had a pretty big transition, too. This year, Number 3 moved from the elementary school up to the middle school. I know it’s not like he scaled Mount Everest or anything. But this is kind […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: giving your kids more responsiblility, kids with anxiety, middle school

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