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Sometimes I feel envious of my friends whose families live close by. A good friend of mine lives within several blocks of her brother and his family, and her parents are right down the street and around the corner. This translates into regular Satur...
Updated: Sep 05, 2013 at 04:27 PM
With the start of summer, I immediately noticed how happy my daughters became. The luxuries of staying up later, sleeping in longer and not having to do homework brought out their carefree, good-natured selves. I heard them laugh more. (I also heard...
Updated: Aug 08, 2013 at 03:40 PM
“Help! My Child Wants to be a Vegetarian!” This is the title I typed in the search bar at the library, hoping to find a book that would help me deal with my 12-year-old daughter’s decision to give up meat for good.
A few months ago, Claire started ...
Updated: Jul 09, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Normally I don’t like it when the house is messy or cluttered.
But when I see that my 7-year-old daughter, Brenna, has once again rearranged the living room, it makes me smile. She has turned the front room of our house into her classroom by moving...
Updated: Jun 13, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Our youngest daughter is 7 years old and recently got her very first iPod touch. She is ecstatic, and I already don’t know what she is doing on it.
We have it set up so that she can’t access the Internet without getting our permission. And when I s...
Updated: May 17, 2013 at 08:40 AM
Before I became a mother, I had all kinds of opinions and ideas as to how I would parent my own children someday, as well as the results I could expect.
For example, I knew I would never count to three to try to make my children obey: children shou...
Updated: Apr 17, 2013 at 04:42 PM
We have several signs in our home with phrases and words that reflect our values around faith and family, except for the purely sarcastic sign in our laundry room that says, “Laundry: Loads and loads of fun.”
I am drawn to these signs — like the on...
Updated: Mar 20, 2013 at 09:40 AM
Parents today make considerable efforts to raise confident kids with healthy self-esteems. But what about humility? How can parents build up their child's self-confidence without fostering attitudes of arrogance or entitlement? And in our increasing...
Updated: Feb 25, 2013 at 10:55 PM
I have a theory about skipping: I think that many of us start our lives out skipping, and then at some point we realize that we are too old to skip, or we look around and notice that no one else is skipping anymore, so we stop. Sure, from time to ti...
Updated: Feb 21, 2013 at 01:40 PM
We have had our puppy, Lila, for a year and a half. We have house-trained her and crate-trained her; we’ve taught her to sit and to stay. We take her on regular walks on a regular route, and she regularly does her business in front of her preferred ...
Updated: Jan 24, 2013 at 02:59 PM