Sweetness: Daddy, what are you doing? Daddy in a playful tone: I’m cleaning all the hand prints off the TV. How do you think these got here? Sweetness: I don’t know. Daddy: Really? You don’t? Do you think it was you? Sweetness: No. Daddy: Do you think it was your brother? Sweetness: No. Daddy: Well, [...]
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I know, I know, totally overdone post title. But maybe if I go public with them I’ll actually keep with them past say, next Thursday. I think the trick to New Year’s resolutions is to keep the list short and realistic. With that in mind, here’s my list: Work with Sweetness at least three times [...]
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First off, I apologize for being away so long. I’ve tried to keep my Mom Tip Mondays going, except for a holiday break. They start back up next week. I hope they’ve been helpful. In Jen’s World, the silence has not been due to anything bad. I’ve been missing from my personal Facebook page too. [...]
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My mom tip today is aimed at moms who tweet, because let’s face it, if you’re a reader here, you’re most likely a Tweeter, or at least have some curiosity. I’ve been at this Twitter thing for a bit and have developed a few insights from a mom perspective, for better or worse. Want to [...]
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What’s a wordless Wednesday on the first Wednesday of November without cute Halloween photos? We had a great time enjoying the local shopping area with 500 of our closest friends. I am actually loving this tradition because it’s daylight, safe, and whole families get in on the action. Lots of fun. Out of respect for [...]
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If you’re like me, you have several Google accounts to separate your personal life, business and even blogging. But the frustration has always been you have to log out of one account to log into another one because it appeared Google doesn’t allow multiple accounts to be open in the same browser. So you couldn’t [...]
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It’s been a while since I participated in a wordless Wednesday. This one has been making the rounds on the net, but it was just too funny not to share. Happy Harvesting.
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In the midst of getting into my new job then having my lovely accident, I completely forgot to even reflect upon, let alone fully absorb the fact that last month I officially entered middle age. Forgive me. Here, let me make it up to you: I remember a time when my dad turned 40 and [...]
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A girlfriend of mine with a daughter close to Sweetness’s age was lamenting on her Facebook page this past week about having to enact a consequence, and then suffer through the fallout. But low and behold, her daughter thought twice the second time around. It reminded me all over again of the importance of logical [...]
Chances are you’ve heard all about helicopter parenting. I come across that and cringe just because I’m a mom and a helicopter pilot and sometimes people wonder if my blog is about helicopter parenting. Ugh, quite the contrary. Helicopter parenting is in essence parents who hover over their children at all times, rarely giving the [...]
Kids are inherently curious and a great way to nurture that curiosity while stimulating creativity and imagination is getting crafty. Now before you break out in cold sweats, know I’m not talking about Martha Stewart crafty, put the other moms at PTA to shame crafty, or make that science fair project double as an MIT [...]
You’re lucky if you get to the point where a child asks “where do I go when I die?” It means the topic of death didn’t come up until they were old enough to really think this up on their own and ask. Sadly, in this household, we had to discuss it before it was [...]
Today I’m handing of the controls to Nancy Parker, a nanny and writer who wanted to offer some advice on finding a nanny who uses positive discipline. What she offers in just a beginning, but the points she makes are none the less important to keep in mind. Take it away Nancy. Finding the perfect [...]
I’ve invited Susan from Mariner 2 Mother to guest post a Mom Tip Monday today. Susan has a 7-year-old boy with sensory processing disorder and she’s taken a number of positive discipline courses focused on developing capable young people. Today she shares her experience with control and respect when it comes to working with a [...]