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I Did Not Require My Kids To Read This Summer, And I Never Will

August 21, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

The other day a friend of mine acknowledged in a closed Facebook group for the middle school that she had not required her child to read this summer, and she described herself as an “awful mom,” and she wanted to know what the consequence was for this failure to force her kid to read over […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: IXL, m ath packets, summer reading, summer reading packets, summer slde

Dr. Seuss said it best. As usual.

August 23, 2013 by not your average mom 5 Comments

I may have said this before, but I used to see this therapist. She was a life changer for me. And one of the biggest things she taught me was that, as she put it, I needed to develop a “teflon coating.” I used to take everything so personally. To the point that it was […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: doing what you love, summer reading packets

Did my kids read for 600 minutes this summer? I don’t really know. And I don’t really care.

August 22, 2013 by not your average mom 68 Comments

I was a teacher before I had kids. A young, opinionated, judgemental teacher. I often found myself saying, “How hard is it?” How hard is it to clean out a backpack? How hard is it to fill out a permission slip? How hard is it to check your kid’s work? How hard is it to […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: should you make your kids read, summer, summer reading, summer reading packets

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