Category: Behavior Issues
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Unexpectedly an Expert
Woman: What’s your secret? Me: Secret? Woman: Your son. Is he always that well behaved? Me: Well he has his moments, but yeah, usually. Woman: How do you do it? Every evening after dinner…
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Thwarting Babysitter Drama–Forewarned is Forearmed
Every now and then, my husband and I try to get out without our darling boy. In fact, last summer, we started having a standing date every Friday night. Once the colder months hit,…
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Everything is Coming Up Mutha F#!@*! Roses
I swear this will be my last blog entry regarding the fact that my daughter remains smugly settled into her terrible two-ness. But, I have to rant just one more time about it. I…
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“Mean Mommy…. Hate Mommy! Hate HER!”
Where my daughter learned the word “hate” I still can’t fathom.. I’m sure it came from me screaming about hating the ridiculous driver in front of me at some point in our day, but…
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There are Some Things That a Girl Will Never Understand..
….. like why it is entertaining and fun for a boy to see what it’s like to pee in an air conditioning vent. Yesterday I awoke to a smell that reminded me of the…
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Terrible Terrible Twoooooooooo
Oh. My. God. My daughter woke up this morning apparently possessed with satan himself. I don’t know what happened. She has been sick – and I thought that her nasty attitude was a symptom…
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Yes is the New No
My husband and I are trying a little experiment. First, let me tell you how we came about this decision: We have become pretty crochety and cranky, my husband and I… Not so much…
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Beauty Queens, Princesses & Ponies
Little girls, little girls, little girls. I think I was less shocked when my son began proving the whole nature over nurture theory to me when he started being uber-boy than, now, seeing my daughter lassoing…
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Communicating with your child..
I have a friend, her name is Joy, who is always a wonderful person to bounce parenting problems and solutions off of. She is very concientious about her methodology and her tactics when it…
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Lovely Six…….
Little boys go through quite a tumult of emotional and physical growth spurts between the ages of three and six. I can remember my angelic three year old son, practically overnight, becoming this very…