Each day, my daughter and I pick up my son from kindergarten. I park and we walk the quarter mile (if that) to the gate. We cross the street where the majority of the parents are parked waiting for their children to be released. It’s a giant, segmented earthworm of cars stuck on the pavement…
Both my kids are still registered in daycare. Yes, even though I am staying home with them now I can always bring them in for a daily rate. It’s call “drop in” status and hangs there like a trapeze net to catch me if I fall. Not that I think I will fall or…
There are some battles that I just don’t have the strength to fight. Like the full out run-at-the-walls-with-siege-engines-and-swords battle I had with my five year old diva on Friday night. I was tired, stressed about the next day’s speech recording for school (which was a story for another post) so when Pea put up a…
Have you ever listened to an argument debating nature vs. nurture? They get heated! You might have even vehemently argued one side over another at some point. Did you finally have children and found out the answer? It’s both. It’s nature and nurture. My daughter has it in her to be Regina George (If you didn’t…
Having a preschooler and kindergartener is great! They are independent and willing to get what they want. This is what struck me as I moved the chair from the counter back to the kitchen table for the hundredth time today. I took a long, hard look at how the cupboards were arranged in our home–and…