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| A Bitter Sweet Note Parents of music students everywhere! Listen up! I have found a surefire way to enhance the quality and quantity of band practice without the typical threatening and nagging once required to make you feel like you’re getting your money out of... ( added 126 days 17 hours ago.) |
| Small Town Living is the Life For Me My kids have complained now and again about where we live. They say, “There is NOTHING to do here" or “This place is a dump." I think they miss its strong suit - simplicity.
For example, while other communities flaunt hot pink flamingos or those... ( added 181 days 17 hours ago.) |
| Raising a Full-Figured Child “Mom, can you drop off a few things at the Salvation Army for me?" asked my daughter not long after Christmas. “When I put my new stuff away, I cleaned out clothes I don’t wear anymore."
It sounded like a reasonable and venerable act. That was... ( added 210 days 19 hours ago.) |
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| Bushy: A Family Tale This is a story of survival. While it may not be as bone-chilling as Admiral Byrd’s or as abominable as what happened at the Donner Pass, it’s about all the excitement my family can handle. We retell it as a celebration of our ability to not only... ( added 284 days 21 hours ago.) |
| Halloween: You Be the Judge I am afraid. Halloween is around the corner and once again I'm instinctively gripping my seam ripper just a bit too tightly. The horror of our community's annual Halloween costume competition - oh, excuse me - Halloween party, has me stressed.... ( added 309 days 20 hours ago.) |
| Mean Parents Anonymous - Guilty As Charged
My name is Mary and I’m a mean parent. ( added 340 days 22 hours ago.) |
| Cliché Revival: Diplomatic Teaching Tool
Pre-ramble - We, as parents in the paternal state, in order to form our children into more perfect offspring, establish our justice, insure domestic tranquility, produce no regrets, promote their general welfare and secure blessings for them as... ( added 1 year 97 days ago.) |
| Dancing About the Birds and the Bees It’s inevitable that questions about the birds and the bees will pop up. When my son asked what “doing the nasty" was, thanks to the kids on the bus, we had to visit this sweet mystery of life. Fighting the temptation to tell him it was a new... ( added 1 year 121 days ago.) |
| Be An Easy Rider With Your Student Driver Remember when your parents popped a gasket teaching you to drive, white knuckling it from the passenger seat? If you don’t want to go around that track, better gear up for your own child’s driving lessons. Start with a couple of warm up laps.... ( added 1 year 139 days ago.) |
| Confessions of a Trophy Wife I call myself as a trophy wife. Top shelf.
I’ve worked hard to get to this point in my life. I don’t make excuses: I made choices.
Years planning, manicuring, managing and manipulating have earned me the “good life." We all want success... ( added 1 year 152 days ago.) |
| A Parent's Role in Teen Drama
Never was there a story of more woe. Until the next bad grade, pimple, flyaway hair, wrong kind of jeans, snotty comment, “dirty" look, or dropped spoon in the cafeteria.
These typical examples of teen tragedy, comedies of errors played out... ( added 1 year 196 days ago.) |
| The Advent of Christmas Epiphanies
Children aren’t the only ones to experience Christmas joys. Parents too celebrate the season when our children do or say things to show they understand the true spirit of Christmas.
These epiphanies may need some prompting, like a greenhouse... ( added 1 year 259 days ago.) |
| Putting the Permanent Press on Laundry Day Contrary to popular teen perception, parents don’t like to rag endlessly. It’s just a necessity due to our knowledge of basic scientific principles like that germs can make you sick, or even worse, smelly.
While we are mildly entertained by some... ( added 1 year 266 days ago.) |
| Creating a Survival Vehicle For a lot of us, our vehicle is a home away from home. Why not make this alternate home as comfortable and functional as possible? This can be easily accomplished with the unnatural selection of some items to outfit your vehicle for survival.... ( added 1 year 271 days ago.) |
| The Prepared Parent's Guide to Fast Comebacks
Writing and
speaking have very different economics. One affords you time, the other cheats
you of it. That is the trouble with comebacks. The timing of their delivery is
so important. Children approaching or in the midst of their teen... ( added 1 year 278 days ago.) |
| Teen Clothing Exposed - A Grim Tale Fashion industry moguls, having studied parenting trends, discovered that adults have stopped reading fairy tales to children. Danger looms as these magical weavers take advantage of lessons not learned from this mild, yet fairly effective... ( added 1 year 304 days ago.) |
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