Parenting

Thanks To Miley Cyrus, I Relived My Childhood

1.8.08

Miley rocked hard and you could see her passion. But I thoroughly enjoyed watching the audience and remembering my own teenage dreams and celebrity infatuations.

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Education Administrators Say Don't Focus on Personal Value

11.30.07

While schools willingly support team competition, writing, math, and other individual academic contests are being shunned, sometimes prohibited.

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Stifling Creativity: Screen Time, Supervision or School?

11.17.07

Is our kids’ creativity being crushed? By the school system? Or screen time? How about the so-called helicopter parenting?

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This Homeschool Co-op Thing is Working Out Well

10.31.07

This fall our family joined a homeschool co-op group. The co-op is not designed to so much “teach” him as it is to expose him to new things and inspire him to want to learn more. And that is what it’s all about.

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Gettin' My Potty Trained

7.30.07

My daughter: “Mommy, I don’t like getting my potty trained!” Me: “Why not? You’re a big girl now!” Daughter: “No, I’m not a big girl. I’m still little. Getting my potty trained is bad.”

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Easy-Bake Oven = Waste of Money?

7.10.07

L is taking Cooking Camp this week. Today he brought home an apple turnover he made from scratch. Yum. He’s always been into cooking. A couple years ago he was watching Emeril Live every single night. He likes to help me cook and play like he has his own cooking show. Last year he was [...]

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Things I Want to Remember

6.18.07

My daughter is at that awesome, yet challenging, age of nearly 3 years old, and I want to remember some of the adorable, strange, and frustrating things she says and does. She loves to get dirty. Any food or dirt she can smear all over herself makes her happy. Especially sand, mashed potatoes and peanut [...]

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How Did I Get HERE? Part III

5.17.07

Part I Part II In her post, Stop Trying to Find the Homeschooling Mom a Career, Mother Crone wrote, “I HAVE a career. I am a homeschooling mother, and I LOVE that career.” Her post was timely for me because I had been thinking the exact… opposite. As I read her words, filled with passion [...]

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How Did I Get HERE? Part II

5.13.07

Continued from here. I immersed myself in stay-at-home mom-dom. We had recently moved to a new town and I had no friends, so I joined the local MOMS Club and immediately began taking on responsibilities. I designed our chapter’s web site, did the layout for the monthly newsletter. Soon I was V.P., and the next [...]

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Take a Week Off From Punishing

5.7.07

I always enjoy reading Stu’s parenting suggestions at GNM Parents. I’d love to see this one work, but I’ve never had much luck with the “no punishment” route.

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When Did Success Become a Curse Word?

4.26.07

There are some excellent discussions going on in the comments of my post on Winning, Losing, Praising, as well as a related post at O’DonnellWeb. Check them out now. I’ll wait. OK, all caught up? Super. Now, I have a question for all of you. How do you feel about “winning” in academics? Do you [...]

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Winning, Losing, Praising

4.22.07

It was the fourth (and last) inning in my son’s first Little League game of the season. His team, the Orioles, was down 5 to 0. Suddenly, they got a hit, a stolen base, another couple hits, then an awesome hit that was close to a home run. The score was 5 to 4! There [...]

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The Heart Can't Be Superglued

3.17.07

L started an art class a couple weeks ago at a local paint-your-own pottery shop. The instructor has been wonderful, teaching L about drawing, sculpting and painting through hands-on projects. In the first class, he drew a landscape. She taught him about depth and the horizon, how to paint from light to dark, and how [...]

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Toontown Promotes Cooperation

3.13.07

Disney’s Toontown.com is my latest addiction. It’s a kid-safe, online role-playing game that brilliantly promotes cooperation and teamwork. This article talks about the game’s cooperative value for children.

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Judge Rules Parents Have No Say In What PS Teaches

3.7.07

Two Lexington, Mass. couples who objected to lessons in same-sex marriage taught by the local elementary school have been told by a judge that “the constitutional right of parents to raise their children does not include the right to restrict what a public school may teach their children.” I am going to quote a portion [...]

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Conversation with C

12.31.06

My daughter, who is 2 years and 3 months old, has been going on the potty intermittently for a couple months. I recently bought her some Backyardigans underwear and vowed to buy no more diapers after this current box is finished. Just now I noticed her “in position” to go poop and I said, “Let’s [...]

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Holiday Finest

12.26.06

Christmas Eve We had four days of traveling and bacchanalian celebrations, and I am now home, feeling bloated and spent. Here are the cliff notes: We exchanged wonderful gifts. C’s high score went to Sing & Spin Pablo, while L was psyched to get more spy gear and the game Heroscape. We enjoyed an Italian [...]

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