Category: Parenting
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My Two “Only” Children
Both of my kids seem to think they are only children. I can understand it from my six year old, who went for four years being, indeed, the only child. I suppose my daughter…
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You Have Got To Be Kidding Me
I am trying to think of a useful reason to keep talking about my misfortunate series of events this summer. And, perhaps at the end of today’s blog, I will feel as if I have…
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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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Something In the Way She Poos
I am knee deep in other people’s poopy. Yesterday I wiped a total of three other being’s bottoms – both kids and the dog. Am I being too sharing??? Tough. The most alarming of…
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Summer Time, Summer Time, sum sum Summer Time
Anyone else feeling that middle-of-the-summer slump?? Anyone else having those days where you just want to put on all your DVDs and lay in your pajamas with your kids? Or those days where you…
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Boys Will Be Boys….
I have gotten used to people (usually those without kids or those with girls only) looking at my son with great wonder – his preference to jump and run everywhere rather than to walk,…
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“I have no problem spanking you in front of all these people…”
This is what I actually said to my six year old son yesterday. It’s true. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth, but, I haven’t been able to stop saying…
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My Six-Year-Old Son Hates Change
Six year olds are peculiar little characters. Mine, in particular, has a strong tendency toward meltdowns if anything even remotely out of his routine is in engaged in. He avoids spotaneity as if it…
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New Study Suggests That Divorced Dads Can Help Keep Their Kids From Smoking
Ball State study finds that divorced dads can stop children from smoking New Study Suggests That Divorced Dads Can Help Keep Their Children From SmokingThe Centers for Disease Control estimates that about 1 million…
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How To Tell The Little Ones
My kids were close to our friend Will, who died this past weekend. He was young and interesting – he made art that my son found fascinating. My son and Will both shared a…