Report Card Time for Mom
What if the tables were turned and you were going to get graded on your child’s report card on your parenting? How do you think you would do?
What if the tables were turned and you were going to get graded on your child’s report card on your parenting? How do you think you would do?
Some days I think chasing a toddler around the pool’s edge would be less exhausting than parenting teens.
I have begun shopping for teachers’ gifts. What sort of gifts do you give the people to whom you entrusted your children for the entire year? I find it difficult to find gifts that truly show how much I really appreciate all that they have done for my child.
It’s not our business. Don’t interfere. These are the things that we say to ourselves when we don’t intervene.
Baby books are filled with precious memories and important milestones. Here is a mother’s humorous list about some of the things that there isn’t a place for writing about in your baby books.
What happens when you leave your tween son’s punishment in the hands of his siblings? Hilarity, that’s what.
This year I am going to let go of the things that I feel guilty about and forgive my own shortcomings. What would forgiving yourself look like?
A parents first inclination is save our children when something goes wrong in their lives. Truth is we all learn better through making our own mistakes.
What I hadn’t realized then was that was the easy part, discussing the cut and dry mechanics of sex. I hadn’t realized that it was just the beginning of an ongoing conversation where I would have to push past my own embarrassment and get over my own hang ups.
We discuss the science of parenting book, NurtureShock, which promises to turn all of our long held assumptions about parenting on their head.
I don’t want my kids to become desensitized. I don’t want them to think it is okay to make fun of other people or feel superior to other people.
The lasts are hard for me to deal with because when they are happening we don’t know that they are the last. It’s in looking back the event has any importance.
Lying is a necessary part of parenting. Any parent that tells me they never lie to their kids, well, I think they are lying.
It seems like apologizing would be something easy to do, but it isn’t. So just how do you apologize? I have compiled some rules for you to follow.
What about redshirting from the other side of the equation, when these boys are getting ready to graduate and move on to college. Six, eight, ten years later are the parents still happy with their decision?
We have the illusion of control and the peace of mind that comes with technology. But are we better parents or the same parents with more to feel guilty about?
If you’re looking to find the balance between helping too much and teaching them to be successful on their own, this list of homework rules is for you.
Want to read some new books about parenting and then discuss them with other parents? We are going to do just that!
I want a village. These are the people I want in my village. People who think it is a moral obligation to look out for each other’s kids.
I believe that most of our children’s character is not something that is taught but that they learn how to react and interact in the world by watching us.