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Excuse Me While I Install a Security System in my Kitchen
Last weekend, I had the pleasure (slight use of sarcasm) of helping my college-age son move from his dorm ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STREET into a university apartment. Yep. I trekked 300 miles to move my kid’s stuff 300 yards. Am I a great mom or what???? Okay, I’m a mom who got guilted [...]
Done. Finished. Cooked.
A mother only gets to say that once per kid. I get to say it four times, but this is my first. My oldest graduates from college with a BS in Biomedical Engineering this weekend. He will immediately start his PhD program. A paid gig. No longer on mommy and daddy’s dole. That makes him [...]
The Mother’s Holiday Gift Guide for All Ages
Everybody and their dog is writing holiday gift guides. Not to be outdone, I have come up with my own (which my dog did not help write. But she did complain about dinner while I was writing it, which sorta counts). Ages 0-1: There’s a fire sale on Baby Einstein videos right now. So what [...]
The Mother’s Guide to Writing Around a Family
No, I’m not going to give you a plot idea. But as so many bloggers plunge into National Novel Writing Month, I thought a few words of encouragement/wisdom might help. After all, 50,000 words isn’t that many. We scream more words than that at our kids on a daily basis. And there are at least [...]
Kids are Supposed to Fight
Apparently. It may be hardwired into their pea brains. We all know how fun that bickering stuff is, right? It’s one of the most thrilling parts of being a mom–listening to your kids argue. You can’t stop them. Mostly because you cannot control their brains (yet. I know an evil scientist who’s working on it). [...]
How Not to Send Your Kids to Camp
Since it’s summer camp season, and I have done a whole lot of those, I have a few suggestions. But as usual, mine might not be the same as most of the other ones out there. How NOT to send your kids to camp: 1) Don’t pack for them. What do they learn if you [...]
Apples to Eyeballs
One word of advice: DON’T play “Apples to Apples” with my kids. You could lose an eye. In my early parenting days, I was the product of the psychology classes I took in the early eighties. That was the time period when the whole coddle-your-children thing started. Self esteem was THE most important thing. If [...]
My “I’m Doing it Right” Moment
I often quip that moms never know if they’re doing it right until the kid is thirty, has two of his own, and is sitting on his psychiatrist’s couch. But I may have been wrong. I never said I was perfect. In fact, I think one of my main strong points is in not attempting [...]
Do I LOOK Like a Drug Dealer?
Don’t answer that. Most of you have no idea what I look like anyway, so how could you answer that? But honestly. I’m nearly fifty. I dye my hair red from its natural state of almost completely grey (a hereditary thing–I got it from my kids). I’m 5″2′, twenty pounds overweight and always dress in [...]
Top Five Ways to Stop a Tantrum
Kids have tantrums. They aren’t any fun, at least for the mom. They are embarrassing, socially isolating, and they can give you a splitting headache. A child throwing a tantrum is the star, director and producer of a drama orchestrated for, by, and entirely around, himself. The only reason they do it, of course, is [...]
