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Let’s face it. Sometimes I forget things, like making sure my son brushes his teeth in the morning, or brushing out my daughter’s golden locks before bed. I’ve heard parents complain about the battle to get kids to do their chores, and the constant search for the perfect chore chart. First, chore charts in general are excellent tools to help you on the path to…
I’m supposed to be writing about Brussels sprouts. Somehow, I can’t force myself to think about Brussels sprouts right now (although these particular sprouts were unusually delicious). Another school shooting took place last week. I’m sure you heard. I wasn’t going to write about it, because it feels like capitalizing on tragedy. But somehow, I find myself here in the dark writing, a small child…
Rumor has it that raising a child through the age of 17 costs two hundred thousand dollars. That’s $200,000…which is a lot of zeros. Want to send them to college? Better get used to living in the poor house. Want more than two children? It’d be cheaper to get a lobotomy. (And most people will assume you have had a lobotomy if you’re crazy enough…
I know a thing or two about traveling with children…and dogs. We have seven of them (children, that is), and we have been traveling with them for 15 years. Currently we are on the road full-time traveling the country as part of my husband’s music mission. Yup, all of us. You can read about that at The Travel Bags. Go to The Travel Bags. As…
Someone once told me that her son never cried. Not ever! Not even once! Two things come to mind: 1) That most definitely was not the experience I had with any of my seven babies. 2) Liar, liar, pants on fire. Babies cry. It’s just one of those things. Your job as a parent or caretaker or babysitter or the lucky person on nursery duty…
Colic. The word sends shivers down the spine of even the most strong-hearted. According to the dictionary: col·ic [kol-ik] noun paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels colic, fussy, irritable, colicky, sleepless infant or baby According to the pediatrician: “Well, uhhhhh, to be honest, we don’t really know what colic is.” According to me: If your baby cries inconsolably most nights, is in obvious…
There are two things I’ve learned as a discrete nursing mother traveling to churches across the country with my Christian musician husband: You know that really cool one-way glass that allows you to see out of the nursing mothers’ room, but supposedly doesn’t let anyone see into the nursing mothers’ room…emphasis on “supposedly”? It doesn’t work. As soon as this nursing mother is situated…
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