If you want your child, tween or teen to be kind, you’re wasting your breath. Lip service doesn’t do the trick. A recent study suggests parents have to work harder to show that they actually value things like helping an elderly stranger as much as they do getting A’s. Kindness isn’t taught, it’s caught.
Welcome to the mother ‘hood’: Where you will forever be chasing how to be a better mom. Motherhood is a place where you have no control over anything. The time and day no longer matter. Your purse has officially become a dumpster fire. Showering is optional, coffee is not. Sleep will be nonexistent for the next 18 years, and everyone will have an opinion on how you handle the hood. You will repeat yourself a hundred times just to get shoes on. You will never get to pee alone again and now you get to cross your legs when you sneeze.
This should be the official welcome declaration that is read in the tone of the Miranda Rights to every new mother as she waddles to the bathroom in her hospital mesh underwear just after birth.
The first warm spring day found us attracted to the park like bees to flowers. The warm air, fresh green grass and setting sun made the park too irresistible. As a family, we ran through the park, tossing a football around. “Catch it, catch it, Elijah,” I hollered as the football zoomed through the air…
At one point in my desperation to end the sounds of tattling, screaming, and attempts at revenge–I tried this shirt. Let’s just say I’m lucky my kids didn’t kill each other. One of the biggest pet peeves in parenting is the constant sibling rivalry between my kiddos. They are all strong-willed and independent to…
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Two of my three children have been diagnosed in the ADHD realm of disorders. One has inattentive ADD and the other ADHD with OCD tendencies. This means mornings (if not entire days) around here are slightly nutty if not entirely off kilter. Having a child with this disorder can be overwhelming but there are tools…