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Reminders From A Pumpkin And A Baseball Bat

October 14, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Yesterday I ran the Hartford Marathon (recap coming tomorrow) and today I felt surprisingly good. While my thighs are super sore, I don’t feel nearly as bad as I thought I would. But I was pretty tired today, and my husband worked all weekend so he wasn’t around at all, and with my focus really […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Food, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: consistency, natural consequences, setting screen time limits for your kids, setting technology limits for your kids, technology limits

Life Lessons From The Saxophone

October 22, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

A week or so ago I wrote a post about Number 4 and how she was feeling conflicted about continuing to play the saxophone in band in school. This was a tough call for me because 1) she’s talented,  2) she LOVED it last year and 3) I  think, like many of us, she may […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: natural consequences, Number 4, positive discipline, rescuing your children, saxophone, teaching your children responsibility

Digging New Grooves — What I Discovered 6 Weeks Into My Yell-Less Journey

September 6, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

So I haven’t yelled in six weeks. It feels good. It feels good knowing I have maintained control over myself. It feels good knowing that I have set a good example for the kids (not in every department, but at least in this one). And it’s not like it’s been easy or that it’s become automatic. […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: let it go, natural consequences, scream free parenting, yell-free parenting

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