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What I’ll Teach My Kids This Summer (It Won’t Be Math Facts)

June 7, 2017 by not your average mom 8 Comments

This summer, I will not complete summer math packets. I will not practice math facts with my kids or even touch a flashcard. I will not sit my kids in front of a computer to “play math games” or even utter the letters IXL. I will not look at a reading log. I will not […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: accountability, dirt, flash cards, kids, library, math facts, organization, reading logs, reading packets, responsibility, school, summer

Three Things You May Be Doing As A Parent That Are Making Your Life More Difficult

February 13, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

If you are anything like me, and if your kids are anything like mine, you may be presented with multiple situations every day where you are feeling exasperated. You are nagging and repeating and yelling, your kids aren’t listening, you don’t know why the f*ck they won’t just do what you tell them to do, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: brush your teeth, curiosity questions, limited choices for children, nagging, positive discipline, responsibility, shoes, telling

The Parenting Mistake So Many Of Us Make

February 1, 2017 by not your average mom 9 Comments

It is often said that being a parent is the hardest job on the planet. While I would argue that being married is equally challenging, I’d have to agree. Being a mom is fucking hard. There is no greater task than growing, teaching, training, and raising another human being. It’s a tremendous gift, burden, challenge, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: belonging, contribute, positive discipline, responisibility, responsibility, significant

Donald Trump is not this country’s problem.

November 14, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Donald Trump is not this country’s problem. I know he has said a lot of seriously shitty things. I know he has given some people the impression that hate, racism, and bigotry are okay. And acceptable. The pictures of the swastikas and the videos of kids chanting Build a Wall! bringing their classmates to tears […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: accountability, bigotry, communication, election, president, racism, responsibility, violence

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

If you can only give your kids one thing, GIVE THEM THIS.

March 19, 2016 by not your average mom 5 Comments

The other day I told you how I took Number 3 to his Zones practice. There were about 40 kids and just as many parents there. Some of the kids who were there have been to this meet already, so it’s not all that scary or intimidating. But for other kids, it’s their first time. It’s also not […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: independence, responsibility

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