Sarah of shutterbug mama kindly organized an outing last night to see Adele Faber. Adele Faber (if you don’t already know) is a parenting guru and author of the books, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, and Siblings Without Rivalry (amongst others). Since G and I already owned […]
TOPICS: parenting
Mar 13 2008
Advice?
When do kids start understanding consequences for their actions?
Here’s the deal: the kids are currently signed up for a gymnastics class. With each passing week, they become less and less enthused during the class. However, they are ALWAYS excited about going.
Once there, they usually make it through about 20 minutes before they start complaining and […]
Jan 17 2008
The Aimless Word
Yesterday the kids’ school had a parent seminar about Language in the Home; about developing language skills and how we can help guide them. It was interesting and I love that the school makes time to offer advice about our kids.
B&B are pretty on-track with their language abilities. They are probably still a little hard […]
Jan 14 2008
Early Symptoms of the Soccer Parent?
Bean and Buddy had their first soccer practice of the season a few days ago. What is it about watching your kids play sports for the first time that fills your heart with pride and totally hokey emotions? They’re chasing around a ball for f’s sake! (By the way, if you live in Chicago […]
Oct 18 2007
Brave New Web
Today at Parenting: Brave New Web.
Boy I’ve been slacking on blogging lately. I figured I should write about where I’ve been lately… And in case you didn’t read it before, I’ve been Facebooking.
As much as I love Facebook and the Internet, technology scares me. I worry it will be one of the wedges in my […]
Oct 4 2007
Bean, The Teen
Today on Parenting: Three-Going-On-Teenager:
Anyone else have a three-year-old hitting puberty?
Click here to read.
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Sep 21 2007
Kids 101: How To Give Your Parents A Heart Attack
Over Labor Day weekend, while away at our friend’s summer cabin, we all decided to take the kids to the pool. Buddy was in front of the group with G. He walked right up to the edge of the pool, paused for a moment, and without any notice — with his shoes and shirt still […]
Sep 20 2007
Miscellaneous Parenting
I seem to have fooled everyone into thinking I’m some kind of rational being. Ha. Ha ha ha.
The truth is that I have quite a temper. I’ve always been pretty over-reactive and gotten into way too many unnecessary arguments. So what’s changed?
I’m too tired. Whether it’s to care or to put up a fight, I […]
Sep 18 2007
Another Long Ass Crazy Post: (Or, An Update)
Thank you all so much for your support and advice and affirmation. You all had great advice too (um, including the hitting back which, to be honest, has been on my mind and I’m SO relieved others would not find this totally unacceptable — as a last resort, obviously), and I’m so glad I […]
Sep 17 2007
There’s Nothing To See Here Folks, But A Long Ass Post
I have been dried up from blogging. Because I’m a visual person, I always think of a friend of mine when I think of the words dried up. She used to be a pharmaceutical rep for v*ginal cream. She always liked to tell us how our vags dried up after age 30.
Yes, I’m one dried […]
