Parenting

As a mom, I find it difficult to advise anyone to ‘unfriend’ or ‘shun’ another mother. We all have the same issues, no matter how we choose to handle them. Parenting is a road often traveled but rarely navigated precisely and there are so many stops, detours and unexpected delays encountered along the way. Moms […] More

Kids do the darnedest things; sometimes it’s cute and sometimes it’s not. And I think a lot of it has to do with the age and the perspective one has on the situation. For example, it might be cute when your brand new 1-year-old kisses you with her mouth wide open and her tongue out […] More

Kids ruin everything; and parents will agree wholeheartedly. It doesn’t matter how amazing your kids and how much you love and enjoy them or the fact that you would literally do anything for them in the world. Those little people ruin everything from expensive furniture to expensive shoes to that $70,000 SUV you HAD to […] More

I want to start off by saying I hated, and I mean absolutely hated every single parent who had a child that cried on a plane.  And I’m not even talking kids that cried for hours on end.  Frankly, those are the people I wanted to murder.  I’m talking about even five minutes at a […] More

Being a parent is a tough job, and that’s without trying to attain levels of perfection that are not even remotely plausible. Being perfect is overrated, anyway. It’s actually a lot of stress and it’s not worth it. I’ll tell something that I’ve come to learn over the years. With four kids (almost 7, 4 […] More

Teenagers are difficult in so many ways. For some reason they decide they hate their parents – many of them – and they withdraw. They might become more inclusive, more outgoing, darker and more irritable, meaner, nastier and just plain difficult to understand. Not all teens go through the same phases, but many do. And […] More

The grass is always greener, right? Being a mom is the best job in the world, but it’s not the only job many of us have. Some of us are moms and we work; from home and away from home. Right now we are going to talk about the work-from-home mom. That’s me; I’m a […] More

Anyone who has or has ever had a toddler at home understands that these are little people filled with amazing confidence and self-respect. They’re just old enough to understand that they can make decisions for themselves and they’re too young to care in the least what other people think. In fact, it’s parents who do […] More

Kids are strange little people. They really are; and you cannot say they’re not. I have four of them. Each one is different and unique, and each one has a very distinct personality. One of my kids refuses to eat anything but carbs (goldfish and pancakes, please!) and another becomes outraged when we go into […] More

This story makes me smile in so many ways. As a parent, I swore I would never treat my kids unjustly and unfairly, but it’s one of my favorite parts of parenting. No, I’m not being unfair or unjust in my treatment of them, but they certainly do not see things from my point of […] More