I told you about my chill child last week, and he is pretty chill most of the time. Except when he’s not. Like those days I pick him up from school and he’s got a scowl on his face and the conversation goes something like this: “Hey sweetheart, how was your da – “ “WHY […]
Learning to parent with a little more chill
There are people whose mouths write checks their bodies can’t cash, whose bravado is bigger than their brawn. Who can be guaranteed to bristle at the slightest confrontation. You know ‘em. People for whom the competition is a bigger deal than the actual feat, whose entire psyche is one, big button waiting to be pushed. […]
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Sending our kid on exchange? What could we possibly be thinking?
Dear anonymous letter writer, Your note made its way to a few of us this week:
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Ten times I overestimated my teenager
Thought he could tell time. We have a big clock in the living room. The kind with a face and Roman numerals. I guess that could be hard to read on the fly. Too bad there are also only two to three additional clocks in pretty much every room in the house. Our youngest child has apparently […]
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Nothing against turtles, really, or hobos
I recently subscribed to one of those services that delivers a box of ingredients and instructions for dinner to your door every week because: True Fact #1: Parenting gurus say if you don’t sit down to a family dinner on a regular basis your children will one day be hobos. True Fact #2: There are people around […]
