Parenting

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

Just because your kids are small doesn’t mean you get to postpone teaching them good values. It’s a necessary task to teach your young children to say please and thank you, to say excuse me and to be polite. Good manners are good to have, and the earlier a child learns them, the better. However, […] More

Having kids is the most fun my husband and I have ever had. It’s also the most stressful, most exhausting, and most frustrating thing we’ve ever done. We like to think we are good parents – and that the happy, well-behaved (most of the time), intelligent little girls we have say a lot to corroborate […] More

Like it or not, your children are bound to pick up some personality traits from you.  It has often been said that parenting is more caught than taught.  The meaning of that phrase is that regardless of what you say to your children they are more likely to do what you do than what you […] More

As parents, it is our job to teach our children right from wrong so that they will grow up to be good, responsible people.  Sometimes that means we have to use discipline or other creative methods to teach a lesson.  The goal of all discipline with children is to change a behavior.  The kind of […] More

As your baby grows from a sweet little newborn to a mobile, crawling baby to a walking, curious baby you will need to childproof your home to keep them safe.  There are many things in a home that are dangerous to a baby. When you begin to childproof your home it can seem like an overwhelming […] More

Bullying is something we’ve all heard about. It’s in the news all the time. Gay men are having hate words keyed into their cars and their windows smashed. Children are being called stupid, fat, and ugly and then going home and killing themselves. Bullying is not a joke. It’s an epidemic that we have to […] More