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What do you do when Time Out doesn’t work? One of my daughters like to push her behavior to the limit on occasion. We started doing “Time Out” about one year ago. Some times it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Pack Rat went through a phase where she would hit her sister. Sometimes she would […]

Prior to all this, I had a plan.
I would be nearing 30; I would be alone. I would not want to miss out on motherhood; so I would get pregnant and have a child on my own.
That was my plan, to be a single mother by choice. I decided that around the age of 20. […]

The rule of thumb is that it takes a verbal child about three months to become fluent in a new language if they are immersed in it and have no recourse to their first language. Peter and I adopted our daughter K and son M from Russia when they were nearly four and nearly three, […]

Isn’t it interesting how we can think that Postpartum Depression is something that happens to other people even while we are surrounded by the signs of depression within ourselves?
I struggled with Postpartum Depression with three of my four births and I’m not yet out of the woods with my fourth. My fourth baby, Laurelyn, is […]

Some children have been calling my boys inferior because we homeschool. The first time The Manager and TechnoBoy mentioned it to me I was pretty shocked. I’ve been prepared for adults to give me a hard time about it, but to have children make these comments was something I hadn’t predicted.
Basically, the […]

I’ve never smoked a cigarette or gotten a tattoo. I don’t even have my ears pierced. My closet sports no designer clothing or shoes. I’ve never even lived close enough to a major city to be in the know about the hottest nightspots or newest underground bands. My pregnancy, like most other things in my […]