Yesterday I was sick. Sicker than I’ve been in a long time. To be honest, I’m not positive I was sick. I think it might have been exhaustion. Whatever it was, my body felt like it was shutting down. My legs and my back hurt so badly that I couldn’t stand up. I was so […]
Number 4
You never know what you’re gonna see when you go to the zoo.
Last Christmas my parents gave us a premium membership to the Bronx Zoo. That meant our whole family could go to the zoo for free an unlimited number of times for an entire year. That membership also included parking and all the premium attractions (like the carousel and the monorail and the children’s zoo and […]
If your child has ever had night terrors, READ THIS.
If you are the parent to more than one child, you are well aware of how two children who were both conceived by the same people can be completely different in a multitude of ways. It doesn’t take long to figure that out. And just as your children have different personalities, they will also have […]
Sometimes I Don’t Like My Kids
I really love my kids more than anything in the world. But I’ve got to be honest. Sometimes I don’t really like them. At all. Like sometimes I dread the moment I hear them tiptoeing down the stairs in the morning, and as soon as they step foot on the first floor, the countdown to […]
Why I Won’t Give My Kids An Allowance
Yesterday I wrote this post about how I have told my kids they have to wait 30 days before spending any of the money they happen to receive for their birthdays. And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple days. I want to do a better job about teaching my kids […]
She gets it.
I used to watch the show Intervention pretty religiously. If you’ve never seen it, it was on A&E, and the show followed an addict who believed he or she was being filmed for a documentary about addiction, and who later was the recipient of an intervention. In every episode you would see how terrible the […]