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Asking for help is one of the most difficult things to do, because it gets tricky. First, you have to admit to yourself that you are in over your head. Second, you then have to tell someone else that is the case, and third, you have to ask them for their time and […]

My first reaction was dismay. I’d torn open the envelope from Ten’s school, the envelope we’d been awaiting for the better part of a week. It contained a letter from his soon-to-be fifth-grade teacher, as well as a list of kids who would be in his classroom. For whatever reason, there are […]

My son is now a practicing driver, having recently passed the written test for his learner’s permit. He’s behind the wheel of a vehicle, a hunk of moving metal (weighing about four thousand pounds) that is traveling rapidly amongst other heavy, and moving, metal objects, which are all maneuvering around immovable objects. Pretty scare stuff.
Except […]

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 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 have been having a challenge with my fourth grader. Every time I ask him if he has any papers for me, he says no. He’s getting his homework done, but he often says he doesn’t have this paper or that one. On a recent spelunking mission through said backpack, I found […]