If parents graded their children’s teachers
We are coming up on spring school conferences for our kids. The idea behind the conference is to find out how your child is progressing in school. Usually the teacher pulls out examples… Continue reading
Category Archive: Parenting
How to react when your child misses the school bus
Last week, I shared how our older son gets himself ready for school and makes the bus all on his own, before we even get out of bed. With our younger son it’s… Continue reading
Mom and Dad debate if a 12 year old should have a cell phone.
Mom is for. Dad is against. It’s been this way since the topic of cell phones first came up about 3 years ago. Up until now, my oldest son, now 12 and half,… Continue reading
Bullying episode is put to rest with an unexpected twist
Friday, my blood was boiling when I found out someone had shoved and slapped by 7th grade son at school. Monday, school officials confirmed my son did nothing to initiate it and the… Continue reading
A Toast to Laughing in 2011
Have you ever made a resolution that you’ve followed through on? Whether it be quit smoking, save money, lose weight, start exercising, or eat better? For some reason that word “resolution” scares me. res·o·lu·tion… Continue reading
Happy 45th Anniversary to My Parents
45 years ago today, my parents tied the knot. Here’s a little video that takes us all back to that date in time. It seems funny to me that my parents would have… Continue reading
Halloween Candy. Keep it? or Dump it?
It’s almost Christmas and we still have so much Halloween Candy left you would think it was Election Day (just a few days after Halloween). I did a quick 15 second video to… Continue reading
Long way to go!
If you read yesterday’s blog and watched the video, then you know I have started a huge undertaking. I am using my very public blog as a motivator to clean my house. I… Continue reading
This place is cool
This is one of those blogs that will have you saying.. remember when we were kids. There are so many gadgets and machines available to our children now that we would never have even… Continue reading
