My son is a little over one year older than my daughter. She hates that and competes with him in ALL things. When he lost his first tooth and she saw that he got a dollar, it was on like fairy song. (She is currently obsessed with fairies.) A week later she gleefully announced that…
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…