Parenting

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

Believe me when I say that it is not difficult to say things from behind a computer screen. Most of us are willing to say whatever we want behind the safety of our keyboards, and we’d never, ever say the kind of things that we say online in person – we don’t have the courage. […] More

We all lie. If you say you don’t, you’re lying right now. While lying is typically associated with something negative, it’s not always a negative thing. Most of us lie in a manner that seems positive. We lie to protect others and to make them feel more comfortable. We lie about how people look when […] More