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My son has a poster due in science this week, all about the units of measure.
I understand, I think, what this is about- to try to get the kids to get a feel for what unit of measure you might use in what case, and to find examples from their own lives.  But let’s face […]

A recent article in Time Magazine reported that there’s been some backlash from smokers to the all-out ban of smoking anywhere within anywhere within Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).  The article states:
One of the most far-reaching prohibitions in the country forbids smoking both inside and outside campus buildings, in all resident halls, parking […]

Even though this will post after “Independence Day”, I thought it was important to talk about the hardest part of being a parent- walking the line between dependence and independence.
One of our jobs as parents is to take small people and gradually prepare them to be independent people, just like us. Yet when you […]

My youngest son turns ten this week.  He made the transition from Toddler to Little Boy to Boy a while ago, but now that he is “hitting double digits”, as he puts it, it’s time for me to admit he’s no longer a little boy anymore.
As the youngest, and also being somewhat small for his […]

My husband doesn’t travel very often. I think this is why my twin daughters react like the world coming to an end whenever he goes on a business trip. Recently he traveled two weeks in a row, which is unheard of for his line of work. The first week he left on Sunday and it […]

I moved to a new job in January. Because I work in a church, it meant that our family moved to a new church. Because the job isn’t far away, we didn’t have to move to a new house, nor did our daughter have to change schools. As a high school junior, that is a […]

Andrew is sitting on the floor right now, counting cash. There are piles of bills and coin around him on the floor. Allie is helping.
They are working together with her family to run a concession stand this summer. It’s a great learning experience, a couple steps up from the lemonade stand he never ran. Andrew […]

The Punks are growing. It’s not some great revelation, but it does surprise me when they actually demonstrate it.
Punk #1 is 8 years old and on Saturday decided that he’d really like an iPod. This didn’t come out of left field, his mom and I each have one and his eight year old […]