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Smitten by a Kindergartener
“My baby girl fills a place I didn’t even know was empty. I am positively smitten.” (K.H.) I love this line that I “borrowed” (with credit) from a friend in her Facebook stream. I also love...
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“Conditioning our children”
“Green and green” is my mantra to Micah now as I drop him off at kindergarten. They are using the “stoplight” system – green is good, yellow is your warning, red is trouble. At the end of the day,...
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Handling transitions
Story Teller. The award for Story Teller went to Micah at his Kindergarten graduation ceremony. I was pretty sure (after seeing the first graders’ awards) that he would win for “Energizer Bunny” – ie,...
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5 things to do differently next year so that I’m not apologizing again
Because I really do owe my boys a great big huge apology for totally underestimating their amount of stress this week with the start of school. It became pretty clear by school day number 4 when every...
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Sometimes the Positive Parenting just doesn’t work….for me….
(Image courtesy of clip-art) I’m sorry, but sometimes reading a bunch of mini-articles and blogs on “positive parenting” techniques is just a bit too much for me. Like when Mr. Ornery has drawn his...
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If only I was a stay-at-home mom…for the school.
Sometimes I wish I was a stay-at-home mom. I would get the Legos picked up off the floor. I would have the clothes actually put away in drawers. I wouldn’t get so wrapped up in trying to decide whether...
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