Tag: parenting
I Stopped Repeating Myself and Here is What Happened (and Didn’t...
“Put your shoes on please.”
“Come on guys, get your shoes.”
“Where are your shoes?”
“Get your shoes off your face.”
“Why don’t you have your shoes on...
Work It Out: Why I Let My Kids Fight
Picture it:
It’s Thursday afternoon, and your kids are watching TV after school. It’s not quite time to get dinner started, so you take the...
The Best Parenting Advice I’ve Ever Been Given
If there's one thing a pregnant belly seems to say to people, it must be "Give me unsolicited advice!" I think we can all...
The Power of Parenting Clichés
Once upon a time I heard sweet songs on the radio about missing stages of childhood and babies being grown, and I smiled and...
Teenasaurus Rex: How to Identify and Coexist with One
Today on National Momographic, we are going to talk about the rarely spotted Teenasaurus Rex. These creatures have been around for millennia, yet many...
The Physical Stage
In early November, I started a new job and a new career path. For the first time in almost four years, I started working...
I Lost My First Baby to College
Dropping my oldest off at college in August was hard. Navigating that was emotional and icky and made me so stinking proud, too. But...