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Oh, how we adore our screen time in my family. Among us are a blogger mother, a Twitter-addicted father, and two app-lovin’ kids. The decision to limit screen time came by necessity as we had all but simply stopped talking as a family. It hardly seemed reasonable (or practical) to enforce screen time limitations without following by […]
This new year (like every new year of my adult life) I mentally calculated lessons learned, lessons lost, and what I hoped to achieve in the upcoming 365 days. As I sat down to pen my personal goals, I began to write a parenting manifesto of sorts. One that begins and ends with my offerings […]
By now your Facebook and Twitter feed is probably riddled with resolution goodness. It’s not that I mind public displays of New Year’s resolutions, I just happen to think life changes are highly personal, maybe even a little bit sacred. Then again, I get the whole forced accountability and support that comes from making a […]
Well friends, another Christmas has come and gone much, much too quickly. This Christmas we packed up the kidlets and traveled to Grammy and Poppy’s house in the land of Lost Wages. If covertly packing Santa’s toys (including two very cool and very huge Fliker scooters) wasn’t hard enough, BooBoo was battling one totally nasty, […]
Last month, for the first time in ages, I caught a glimpse of my 10-year-old son shirtless. As a private kid who’s been taking his own showers since the age of 6 and wearing swim shirts in the pool ever since, a bare-chested Boy Wonder is an anomaly. So there he was with no shirt…and […]
The Mayans predicted the end of the world tomorrow, December 21, 2012. They better not be right, I’m leaving for Vegas this weekend. But just in case the Mayans are right, I’ve come up with a list of 10 things to do with your kids today, ya know, on your the last full day on […]
While the idea of a Christmas filled with more love than gifts was always my goal this year, I’ve never felt more convicted to make it happen than I do today. Maybe it was the flood of parents walking their kids to school this morning in place of rolling stops and rushed goodbyes. Maybe it […]
Just like you, the events of last Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in CT have me completely devastated. It’s a scary world out there. We don’t have to know the victims, have a personal connection to Newtown, or even be a parent to grieve such a senseless tragedy. When I arrived with a […]
Above is the actual text message I sent to my husband (yes, “Big Daddy P’ even in my phone) on November 28th at 5:56pm. It was a big day, people. I gave my son the sex talk. Boy Wonder or “BW” (his abbreviated nickname) is 10-years-old and I’ve been asking my husband to give him the […]
I know the title sounds all sorts of ungrateful, but let me start by saying my kids are lucky small people. They have loving parents, a peaceful home, and enough toys to share with the entire neighborhood (not they’d want to, but still). As impressionable as toy manufacturers bank on, my kids beg for what […]
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