Parenting

Moms don’t get sick days, which means when you aren’t feeling good; the day is going to be a long one. Few things are as frustrating and miserable as feeling under the weather with kids – especially if you have more than one – and they want just as much of your attention, energy and […] More

Getting the kids ready and out the door in the morning can be a bit of a challenge, even for the best and most efficient of moms. When your preschoolers suddenly lose the ability to dress themselves and no one can decide what to wear, it makes things stressful. If you want to eliminate the […] More

No one ever said being a parent would be a walk in the park. Being a parent is wonderful, but it’s not without its challenges. What’s a mom (or dad) to do when your little one seems to be one step ahead of you all day long? You tell her to stop throwing legos across […] More

If our kids came out walking, talking, entertaining themselves, and already potty trained, life would be pretty awesome. Oh wait, they also need to be organized and clean, too; then life would be pretty awesome. Here’s the deal; some kids are clean and organized and some are not. My four-year-old likes things clean, tidy, and […] More

Having kids is a life changing event, and I know this firsthand. Everything you do right now is going to change, even if you think it won’t (and boy does every childless person think their life won’t change with kids). There is no more spur of the moment anything, because kids take a little extra […] More

Getting your kids to clean their rooms is difficult.  It is one of the things parents fight over most with their kids.  It is understandable that we want their rooms to be clean.  Their rooms are part of our home and when they look like a pigsty, we feel that it prevents our home from […] More

I have recently read about parenting styles and the effects it can have on children. I was a little appalled to see how degraded and negative authoritarian style parenting is said to be. I grew up with an authoritarian style parent, and I felt that it was a very important aspect in my life. When […] More

This past August, I sent my four-year-old daughter to school for the first time. She turned four at the end of July and started VPK not three weeks later. She was so excited that she didn’t even care that I left. She cried when I picked her up because she wanted to stay. In fact, […] More

Not too long ago I wrote a piece about the annoying things non-moms do. Now it’s time to admit that as a mother, I, along with the rest of the moms in the world, occasionally do annoying things as well. Of course, we know that the second we become pregnant we’re going to become insufferable […] More

Dear Lady Without a Baby: There are so many things the rest of us – with kids – want to say to you, but for now we’ll settle for telling you that while you may think we are annoying, the feeling is very, very mutual. Just because we have a little spit up on our […] More

Snow days can be a parent’s best friend or their worst nightmare.  When the children are entertained you can enjoy a day of blissful family togetherness.  When the children are bored and argumentative you will not see peace and will be wishing that school had never closed even if it meant you had to drive them […] More