A new school year started and I've been thinking a lot about what it is I really want my children to learn this year and through life. What are the lessons I think they need most? It occurred to me that the two lessons I most want my children to learn are things I say...
Tonight is an optional third grade science fair. In the past at our school the science fair was held in second grade. It was, in my opinion, ridiculous. It was mandatory and few if any second graders really had the ability to create a science fair project on their...
Last Fall my husband and I spent a lot of time debating internally, on here, and on Facebook what to do about our Boy Scout problem. Our son wanted to be a Boy Scout. His sister is a Girl Scout and I could not be happier with the benefits she's seen from that. He...
Yesterday my children's school was on "soft lock down." There had been a home burglary in the area and the police requested the lock down as a precautionary measure. I didn't find out about it until the lock down was over, and I found out about the lock down and the...
I was pregnant with my oldest child for 42 and 1/2 weeks. That's a lot of time to worry. I worried that my baby would be a boy and I would have to decide about circumcising him. I worried that my baby would be a girl and she would be disappointed about my inability to...
It seems that the only thing we American moms love to read more than articles about the fake wars that we're supposedly engaging in with each other is books and articles about how everyone else is better at parenting than we are. The French, the Chinese, everyone does...