Giving New Meaning to Parenting

I’m writing this blog post in an effort to help other parents help their kids.  I am also painfully aware that this will be shared through my social channels, and that several of my kids teachers and principals may read this as well.  While I am concerned about the effect this might have as a [...]

Now that the summer is over and the kids are back in school, I thought I’d take this time to reflect on our latest experience with Summer Camp. The daycare located on site where I work offers summer camp for children entering kindergarten through those entering fifth grade. My son is a veteran now, since [...]

A friend of mine recently found her seven-year-old son watching porn on his new PSP. Understandably, she was devastated. Her son was confused. It’s a toy, after all, and surely if mummy and daddy give you a cool toy you want to press all the buttons and totally expect only fun things to happen as [...]

Recently, I found myself stuck in a small Toyota Matrix with a four-year-old, and eleven-month-old, a cat, and my husband for more than thirteen hours.
This, as you may guess, was fairly close to one of the levels of hell described by Dante.  Factor in that we traversed the whole of Ohio on a diagonal and [...]

Lunch boxes! Oh I know, they can be a bore! It’s easy to just throw some junk in there, anything your child will eat without complaining. But during term time, lunch box meals take up quite a chunk of your child’s overall food intake, so it’s best if they have healthy ones. And with some [...]

I realized recently that the boys were flat out using me quite often. In the heat of an argument, one child will show up and demand, “Mom!!! Will you tell him that (insert side of argument here)??” I am not fond of being in the middle of an argument in the first [...]

The first day of school can be pretty traumatic for parents and children alike. I would like to say that there is a special technique you can use to make it easy for everyone, but since all kids (and all parents) are different, all I can really do is to pat you on the back [...]

With two 7-year-old and two 12-year-old boys, we’re definitely out of the “Dora the Explorer” phase of television watching. And forget about Sesame Street; I never could get the boys to sit down for that show. (Not that I’m complaining about boys avoiding television.) Happily, the boys all enjoy the documentary and [...]

When my daughter was a baby, she suffered from Acid Reflux Disease.  She would scream for roughly 7-9 hours each day.  It was maddening.  I was a disaster.  As a new mom that knew nothing, I couldn’t believe this was what I had signed up for.  I was purely in survival mode.  For sixteen-weeks she [...]

As a child, just like any child, my life revolved around my parents and their decisions.  They knew what was best, what was safe, and did to the best of their ability to raise my sister and I.  I didn’t always understand the rules, or why we had to do the things we did, but [...]