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The Plagiarism Temptation

September 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Condoning Avoidance

September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Is That Porn On Your PSP?

August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Praise The Lord And Pass The DVD Player

August 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Healthy Lunchboxes

August 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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We’re Working On Mutual Solutions Here

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Starting School, Is It Ever Easy?

August 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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5 Classic TV Shows for Boys

August 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Routine, Routine, How I Love Thee.

August 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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A Different Perspective

August 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

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