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Not Your Average Summer Bucket List

June 27, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Last summer I made myself a Summer Bucket List. I had a whole bunch of quintessential summer experiences I wanted to cram into a couple of months. I’ve also been known to make a Christmas Bucket List in the past. So the kids have experienced these in the past. This summer though, the only bullet […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: books, bucket list, electronics, Number 4, read, run, summer

5 Things Americans Need to Stop Doing (And Start Doing)

November 10, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It is Day 2 with our new president-elect. Things are calming down a little bit. There is less gloating. There is less complaining. I think we are all tired. There is only so long you can keep passionately fighting your side of the argument before you run out of gas. There is nothing to fight […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: 5 things, acknowledge, americans, fence, hypocrite, president, read

The Test Scores That Really Matter

November 6, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

In our school district, the elementary schools administer tests to the kids in September as a way of assessing reading skills. We just received the results from these tests this past week. As I expected, the kids performed very well. Two of them scored above the 95th percentile in multiple areas. Does it feel good […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: communication, compassion, elementary school, empathy, five year old, kindness, read, reading, responsibility, scores, seven-year-old, six year old, test

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