...finding perfection in imperfection daily.
One look at my tween and you might think the thing my kid needs most is a haircut. While I’m inclined to agree with you, there are actually five things he needs even more and psst! They’re the same five things every tween and teen needs to be healthy and happy.
Growing up can be scary, so it came as no surprise when Boy Wonder began exhibiting trepidation whenever the subject would arise. While I wish I could just wave my magic wand and make all of his fears disappear, I believe it’s my job to try and talk the fears out – try being the […]
Raising a tween is hard work. I never would have imagined longing for the day when my biggest worry was whether my kid might choke on a grape or get hurt on the playground, but I do. Today I worry that my budding teen might fall in with the wrong crowd, say yes to drugs, […]
Last month, I encouraged you to conduct an annual video interview with your child to capture the essence of their personality as they grow. Don’t quite remember? Take a look at this how-to video. This month, I’m asking you to take a turn in the hot seat and allow your child to interview YOU! Why? […]
My son is getting harder and harder to understand the older he gets. I would have never thought that possible, considering his toddler years were riddled with linguistic disasters I somehow became masterful at interpreting; “Shoofly donbadame” (shoo fly, don’t bother me) being my personal favorite. When it comes to communicating with Boy Wonder, I’m […]
The older Boy Wonder becomes, the more I play the numbers game – trying to convince myself that we have more time together than we really do. I know his growing up and leaving the nest isn’t the end of our relationship, but in a lot of ways, it marks the end of a comfortable […]
You guys, I don’t like telling you what to do, but this time I’m going to. Go get your video camera, phone, or whatever recording device you’ve got and sit down to interview your child. Do it NOW. You won’t be sorry. Check out my interview with Boy Wonder right here.
You guys, I’m struggling with the tweenage years already. Boy Wonder is only 10 years old and I feel like we have less in common than ever. This kid has always been the yin to my yang, the macaroni to my cheese, the chow-chow to my beans and now, well, we’re just two people struggling […]
You do a buttload of laundry every week. I know you do because I do too. My kids think nothing of tossing clean, albeit wrinkled laundry, into the dirty clothes hamper when they’re just too lazy to put their laundered, fluffed, and folded clothes away. And while both kids produce a criminal amount of laundry, my tween […]
Boy Wonder and I disagree on a lot of things. This time we did it on video for Babble. Ch-ch-check us out on Boy Wonder’s video debut!
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