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My favorite part of the day comes after the sun sets.  Sometime around eight each night, my husband gives our son a bath and plops him into our bed.  After bath time comes story time, and while bath time is Papa time, story time is my time.  My little man is warm and clean, smelling […]

Recently, we were walking through one of our neighborhood parks, and we saw a little league game. Our son loves to watch people play sports, so he immediately wandered over to the fence and sat down. It didn’t matter that a playground was calling to him 40 yards away; he just wanted to […]

My mother-in-law, a retired school guidance counselor, recently passed on a couple of great books about dealing with bullies.  Written by Trudy Ludwig, My Secret Bully, Just Kidding, and Sorry are all beautifully illustrated books that deal with the difficult topics of peer pressure and fitting in.
While these are picture books, my mother-in-law has had […]

As a child, I would ask my Dad what words meant, and he would always say, “Look it up in the dictionary.” “Just tell me!” I would wail, because I knew he could tell me the definition off the top of his head. After all, he had gone to college, to law […]

In the past week, GNMParents has received a crazy amount of referrals from StumbleUpon. I am not a StumbleUpon expert but, I like what it exposes me to as a blog reader, and I like that it’s been the vehicle which brought over 18,000 hits to GNMParents in the past week. […]

Last week I talked about summer reading. Yesterday we ventured back to our local library. I was on a quest to find some books to read with my almost first-grader that wouldn’t bore me to tears and that he would enjoy reading as well.
I am just so angry I could spit. Pffft. […]

It’s *gulp* the end of July and we are finally getting into the swing of summer. One of the activities that we let slide for the first bit of summer was reading. It wasn’t intentional, but bedtimes were pushed back, company was plenty, and routines were discarded in favor of freedom. […]

For the second year in a row, I have helped organize the Book Fair at our local elementary school. We use a local shop, rather than Scholastic, and the Fair always has amazing books I’ve never seen before. This is not a fund raiser for the school- we pass on the discounts to […]

Should summer vacation be a full on vacation from learning or should parents try to work some educational activities in there? What about actual school work, such as math workbooks or non-fiction reading? How do you handle summer vacation with your children?
I really believe that three months is too long to go without any structured […]

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 […]