Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
The Devil Teaches Kindergarten
Today my daughter took her kindergarten assessment test. Forgive me while I switch into Proud-Mama-Mode and brag for a moment. The average score for this test is 90. My daughter scored 112. I am well on my way to having a “My kid is smarter than your kid” bumper sticker on my car. My mind [...]
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Tags: back to school, bad teachers, evil teacher, first day of school, forming children, kindergarten, parenting, teachers
To Spank or Not to Spank
In the paper this week was an article entitled “Southern Parents Spank Their Kids.” Really? THIS is news? Obviously these people haven’t been hanging around my house lately or this would never have made the front page of the paper. This is like a page four story around here. I am a firm believer in [...]
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Tags: corporal punishment, discipline, kids, parenting, spanking
Biting Your Toenails
Isn’t life supposed to calm down after you retire? I am now in week two of my “retirement” and if anything, I seem to have less time than when I was logging forty hours a week in my office. How is that possible? In the past fourteen days I have visited five states, caught up [...]
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Tags: biting toenails, funny things kids say, kids, moms, parenting, single mom
Worms and Princesses
I’ll never forget the day of my 20 week ultrasound when I was pregnant with my daughter. My mother held my hand as the doctor pointed out three tiny white dots on the screen and said, “It’s a girl!” If I hadn’t already been lying down, I would’ve fainted. Instead, I cried. These were not [...]
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Tags: gender, girls, parenting, princess dress, ultrasound
A coworker once told me when I was pregnant with my daughter, “Enjoy it while you can. She’ll be grown before you know it.” I must have heard this cliché a hundred times in my short while as a young mother but during two a.m. feedings and diaper changes it felt like I was going [...]
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Tags: birthdays, disney, parenting, Vacations Delux
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