Parenting

Awkward Questions – Are Balls Part of the Body?

March 15, 2013

Tweet Last night as I was putting TJ to bed, he says to me very innocently, “I have a question, Mommy. Are balls part of the body?” I asked him if someone had said that they were, but he didn’t give me a straight answer. It had to come from somewhere, though, so I suspect [...]

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The Second Graders Are Getting Cultured Today

March 1, 2013

Tweet For the last month and a half, we’ve been getting notes home from school, and TJ has been reminding us, that his class was going to be going on a field trip today. As I type this up, my little man is at Proctor’s Theatre for a stage production of How I Became a [...]

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Redirecting Your Child’s Anger into Action

January 31, 2013

Tweet As soon as TJ opened the front door yesterday afternoon, I could tell something was wrong. He was on the verge of tears. I asked him what was wrong, and it spilled out of him in a torrent as we hunkered down on the couch together. “I know I should have told you this [...]

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Hug Your Children

December 14, 2012

Tweet We’re still learning new details about the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. As I type this, 26 people are dead. 18 of them children. They went to Sandy Hook Elementary School this morning, like they always did. Their parents put them on the bus or dropped them off. Maybe they were thinking about [...]

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Do Kids Have Enough Time to Eat Lunch at School?

September 19, 2012

Tweet As I was perusing Facebook this morning, I happened upon a discussion that opened up when Mommy Niri asked if lunchtime was too short. TJ has only been in school for two weeks now, and we’ve already had more than one occasion where he’s reported not having enough time to finish his lunch. The [...]

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Dear Kid Saturday – Expecto Patronum

August 11, 2012

Tweet Dear TJ, You and Daddy have been reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban recently. The other night, you were at the part where Harry is taking lessons from Professor Lupin to learn how to repel the dementors. When Professor Lupin asked Harry what his happiest memory was, he asked you the same [...]

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Love Your Boys, End the Violence

July 25, 2012

Tweet The movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado is only the most recent occasion of senseless violence to rock the United States. How many school shootings have there been since Columbine? And let’s not forget the DC sniper, and all of the other gun-related tragedies happening every day in communities across the country that don’t [...]

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Young Kids at Grown-Up Movies – A Conversation Inspired by the Tragic Dark Knight Shooting

July 23, 2012

Tweet I’m going to say this up front: the only person to blame for the horrific Dark Knight shooting in Aurora, Colorado is the shooter. This post is not about the shooting itself. It’s about the broader issue of taking young children to movies intended for an adult audience late at night. My heart breaks for [...]

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What Would the Preschool Teacher Do?

July 10, 2012

Tweet This post was previously published elsewhere, when TJ was in preschool. I think it is still appropriate to share with you now. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but most of us have our own parenting styles that seem to work best with our families. Some of us are strict [...]

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Dear Kid Saturday – Feeling Like a Real Mom

July 7, 2012

Tweet Dear TJ, It’s taken me over a year to remember to write one of these letters to you, and for that, I am sorry. There are so many times I’ve told myself that you did something that I really should document in a letter for when you get older, but by the time I [...]

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