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Mom, I Don’t Think I Could Possibly Be Any Happier

August 4, 2018 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Those of you who have been around for a few years know that we are a pretty big swim family. I was a swimmer from the time I learned to swim until I graduated from college. I have been a coach in some capacity pretty much my entire adult life. Number 3 and 4 are […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: age group swimming, competitive sports and kids, putting pressure on kids, swimming

Maybe Some Of The (Unnecessary) Pressure Is Coming From Us

May 21, 2015 by not your average mom 6 Comments

On Tuesday while I was volunteering at the polls for our town budget referendum, a woman asked me a question about how the schools were addressing, in her words, “the huge amount of stress that students are under.” I didn’t really have a good answer for her. For two reasons. One, I have no idea […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: college, homework, perfectionism and kids, putting pressure on kids, too much homework

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