Category: Parenting
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Soggy Cheerio’s
We all endure tests throughout life. They shape our character and reflect all the repeated quotations that have stuck to and motivated us throughout our lives.
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The Spank.
As a parent, what do you do when time out just doesn’t work anymore? Can you ground a toddler? Where to? To play with her toys in her room? That would be her ideal situation. Spank? GASP. Never… Never say never, right? When faced between leaving the toddler in charge of their world or take…
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Yo no hablo español…somebody is going to kill you, Mom.
There I was, sitting in a Caribbean paradise, wishing I had paid a little closer attention to Handy Manny, Dora, and Diego. Yep, I said it…and really wished it. What’s worse in the eyes of a foreign country…that you butcher their language trying to say something…or opt to be lazy and just speak English because…
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Picture Day
Great picture, right? “Like a magazine cover photo,” said the photographer this afternoon. If you only knew the mental strife behind that photo. What we had to do to get her to cooperate….Oh….my…3. I thought I had escaped the wrath of the terrible two’s. My daughter is a very good kid, and extremely well spoken…
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The Hurty Chokes.
Well, that does it. I can no longer cast looks at other parents who bring their hacking, runny-nosed child out to the store…or to playgroup…or in my case, for Friday night pizza. Armed with hand sanitizer and a gigantic wad of Kleenex, we toughed it out. Call it part of my “I now have 2…
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