When my oldest daughter started bringing homework home (i think it was the third grade) our school nights became a battleground. My daughter would bring out every arsenal within her power…and it was exhausting. I dreaded homework. My daughter didn’t understand homework was non-non-damn-no-negationable. She wanted me to do it. I didn’t want to. She…
Tag: raising children
a fun way of seeing your child grow…
The jump from 11 years old to 12 is astonishing. Puberty does a number on our children. i would recommend to all parents…enjoy them (even when they are annoying us with babble about a video game or something) before puberty makes them no longer yours. I mean, they would prefer hanging out with friends to…
time travel to the 1950’s
When I was a little girl, my mother would take us to Woolworth’s on the Barre-Montpelier road(Vermont). On the very best days ever, she would treat us to lunch. If someone asked me, then, what the very best place to eat was, it was the Woolworth’s lunch counter. Fries fried in good old heart…
do you see it?
for what it really is? We’ve all heard the saying,”take time to stop and smell the flowers” but really, who has time for that nonsense? Who has time to see the beauty in this invasive, defiant little wonder? I do. I see a little too much. Funny, that. I am legally blind in my right…
saved evidence
if you don’t send them to camp…this is evidence of my daughter & I, playing. the photo was taken about 9 years ago. I have been informed that I don’t do anything with my children. I love when I am able to come up with examples of me doing exactly that. Summer vacation is very…
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