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Two Years From Now, They Will Remember *This*

October 6, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Every day I look back through old posts I’ve written on that same day in previous years, and if there are any that are still relevant or if I think they will be useful to readers, I repost them on Facebook. (Yes, I know I should be scheduling these in bulk at one time so […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: apologizing to your children, Extreme Ownership, owning your behavior, parenting fails

Mom Fail #1,877

August 21, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

We have two elementary schools in our district. One is for the kindergarten and first graders, and the other is for the second, third and fourth graders. In 8 days — EIGHT DAYS — we start school Thank you, Jesus. Every year, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade school has a meet and greet day. […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: accepting responbility, back to school, meet and greet, mom fails, parenting fails

What’s a fucking apple? and 41 other not so shining parenting moments.

October 23, 2015 by not your average mom 4 Comments

We’ve all had one. That really regrettable parenting moment. If we are going to be honest, we’ve all had many of them. And we will all have many more. But for some reason, we feel like we must be the only one on the planet to have had a parenting fail. I recently received a […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: mom fails, mom guilt, parenting fails

We’re All F*cking A**holes At Some Point

June 12, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I don’t know about you, but my kids suck right now. Maybe it’s the end of the school year. Maybe it’s the anticipation of summer. Maybe it’s the lingering effects of a seriously shitty winter. I’m not sure of the reasons. But they suck. The fighting and arguing and ignoring and disrespecting is at an […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: cursing, excuse me, fuck, headache, parenting fails, potty mouth

Think you’re the Worst. Mom. Ever? Read this, and you might feel better.

September 15, 2013 by not your average mom 14 Comments

Yesterday an old college friend of mine left a comment in response to yesterday’s post, explaining how she had lost track of her son at a soccer game. Now she’s consumed with tremendous guilt. I just feel like the worst parent ever, she said. All I can say is, you’re not. And you know why? […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: mom guilt, near misses, parenting fails, what ifs

Yesterday I’d say I was magna cum laude.

May 29, 2013 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Yesterday nobody stuffed an entire load of laundry in the toilet. No one broke a glass. There wasn’t a powder, or cereal, or toothpaste, or concealer, or white-out, or tampon, or bead, or band-aid, or paint, or poop, or nail polish, or fireplace ash, or shampoo, or conditioner, or powdered sugar extravaganza. When everything was […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: parenting fails, reading

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