I am a homeschool mom to four children between the ages of four and nine. However, this is not a post discussing how you should or should not educate your children. It doesn’t matter whether you choose homeschooling or public school or private education. We all love our children. We are all striving to do…
Have you ever come up with a good parenting strategy only to have it fail miserably when you tried to implement it? Part of our problem is that when we’re planning what we should do with our kids—what rules we should have and how we should deal with the inevitable breaking of those rules—we are…
I am not an expert on being brave. I don’t have a secret potion, a magic wand, or five easy steps that lead to bravery. However, for the last several years, I have considered myself a student of what being brave looks like—a brave aficionado, a connoisseur of courage. I’ve become a collector of clues…
Kids do this annoying thing: they grow up. It’s rude. I’ve joked with my five-year-old son that I’m going to stop feeding him so he’ll stop growing. His response? “So you want me to die?” Um, well, no. No, I don’t. But his practical response has such truth. What stops growing is in the process…
“That’s it! I’m done!” I declared. I swooped my crying two-year-old out of his seat. I left the lunch he refused to eat sitting on the table and carried him upstairs as he clung awkwardly to my pregnant torso. After I hastily put him in bed, I stepped carefully out of the room, avoiding the…
Dear moms of babies, You are exhausted, I know. You aren’t getting enough sleep. You’re in the thick of all of the mommy wars—breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, cloth or disposable diapers, pacifier or thumb—and all you want to do is love your kids well and not mess them up! Baby snuggles are amazing—blowout diapers are less…