Remember how I like to think I know how to be a good parent and tell you all my secrets to good parenting? Apparently, I’m using my powers for good on my own children because Claire took it to heart: Mom I am speshol you told me I love you. I jest cant tak it [...]
It’s too bad public school principals don’t take bribes. Or at least my kids’ principal doesn’t. I don’t think. Not that I have the money to significantly sway her decisions anyway, unless she could be bought for the $.67 I have in my bank account. But if she did take some under-the-table influencing, I could [...]
I’m going to start by saying I’m not a prude when it comes to other people’s bodies. For my own body, I cover up and shut up. No one wants to see what’s going on under my unstylish clothes. As a mother to two young girls, I may now be more conscious about how much [...]
I never thought my teacher education would help me in raising perfect children. Those years of reading textbooks, practicums, and droning lectures has rolled over to being of good use to my parenting skills. Now I think of the (tens of) thousands of dollars I spent on graduate school as my pre-school for parenting. All of those [...]
That kid you see on the TV with the hair and the big glasses and the white t-shirts? He’s a kid. He’s 16-years-old, he sings music, he performs on stage, he’s good at what he does. He’s 16. He’s a kid. I have a 6-year-old and a 5-year-old who like Justin Bieber. They also like [...]