Smart teenagers know that the way to a parent’s heart is through obedience, love and respect for the people who raised them (plus offering to do a few…
It’s beach season. Time to pay some attention to your largest organ. Today’s “little spot” could be tomorrow’s health scare. I know this from personal experience. It looked to…
I think it’s important to hear and even to appreciate people who are very different than ourselves, people who may fall on the other side of the spectrum…
Raising a Tween is serious business about magic, specifically the care of magical creatures and all things childhood magic related, and you should not be reading just any…
Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about how shitty our world is. How terrifying it is to raise tiny humans among the ignorance and hate. How little…
I need to interrupt your newsfeed for this quick alert: black people are tired. I shouldn’t speak for everyone but as for myself: I am TIRED of being…
At the end of every day, we practice gratitude with our children. Each of us names something we are thankful for that either happened that day or in general. The…
Sometimes kids get an attitude and talk back. Shocking, I know. Occasionally our children are a little too big for their britches and like to correct every minor…
My mom was never the “typical” mother. The one thing that stands out from my childhood is that she was never there for me. Dad ferried me to…
I never ever planned to homeschool. When I got pregnant with my first child, my plan was to quit my job as a high school teacher and stay…