Featured image CC by David D Ah, chores… Dreaded by both kids and parents alike. Kids hate doing them, parents hate having to enforce them. I don’t have all the answers, and things are NOT going smoothly in our house…but I was thinking the other day how much better things
Continue readingSo, I’m re-listening to the book “Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids” by Dr. Laura Markham right now….I ran out of audiobooks to listen to, and I thought now would be a good time to re-listen to this seriously EXCELLENT book that was just life changing for me…but it was starting to
Continue readingI love that I finally seem to have developed the ability to lecture my 14yr old daughter about life lessons in a way that is goofy and fun, and very UNlecture-y. Just had a long conversation with her about the importance of routine….something I’ve struggled with for YEARS. At least
Continue readingI am on Dr. Larry Cohen‘s email list, and I love it! Just was sent this adorable and fun sounding tip, that was too cute to not share: To help make mealtimes more fun and less stressful (and to get picky or distracted eaters to eat): One mom wrote, “Someone
Continue readingJust got to bed & found Tyr (bed next to me) kicked his covers off & tshirt he’s wearing (mine) is hiked up, revealing little nakey butt.
Continue readingtyr’s first night in his own bed (next to ours) was a success! i asked him how he liked it and he said “i loved it!!” so funny…at one point in the night, tyr was snuggled up to my side of the bed with his head on me, body on
Continue readingso it finally happened. tyr decided to cut his own hair. apparently the front was bothering him yesterday. luckily it doesn’t really show.
Continue readingi mean “the gift of giving” in a little different sense. usually its used to mean that its a gift of giving something to someone, right? i am thinking of it in terms of giving my kids the gift of learning to give. its on my mind a lot lately,
Continue readingok, i seriously suck at regular housework…i mean i do it all the time but i can’t seem to maintain anything. and i’ve not been really great about consistency with the children with chores. i want to, and i really mean to…i just suck at it. i’m starting to really
Continue readingi have said here before that i tend to be very hard on myself and my parenting abilities and such. i am constantly critiquing myself and am my own worst critic. so right now i feel like posting some things that i am very happy and even proud of. something
Continue readingI posted all our Halloween pics on our shutterfly site. Kids had fun, but far too many instances of them getting scared. Maeven wanted to go home early because of it. 🙁 Just wanted to fume here for a sec about parents that allow their children to dress in those
Continue readingtyren is seriously exhausting us. just in the past couple weeks he has been throwing the most hideous tantrums and fighting us on everything, and i mean EVERYTHING. good god its exhausting. i’m crossing my fingers its just a phase that he’s going through and we’ll make it through this
Continue readingwell those of you that read my twitter or facebook feeds, already know about the drama of the past 4 days. but i thought i’d blog about it anyway, cuz i feel like writing out the whole story. so maeven started complaining about a sore throat the end of last
Continue readinghave i ever posted about the lion and lamb project? i can’t remember. from their website: “The mission of The Lion & Lamb Project is to stop the marketing of violence to children. We do this by helping parents, industry and government officials recognize that violence is not child’s play
Continue readingI’m so glad to have stumbled upon Times up kidz. It has made computer time with my kids SO much easier. I was having a lot of problems getting my kids off the computer. Maeven would get up early and be on already when I got up…and stay on, resisting
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