Archive for October 2007

I had an interesting exchange on a black-oriented message board a while back and thought I’d share it with you all. A woman posted that she was tired of seeing young mothers mistreating their children in public. Her words are in bold, mine in plain text:
I feel that the next time that happens, I am [...]

The biggest part of attachment parenting that I get the most flak for is not spanking my children. It was hard for me to accept that I could raise my children without spanking them, but once I did it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I haven’t spanked my children since [...]

My husband and I have been going back and forth about having another baby for going on 2 years now. I turned 35 in January and really feel like it’s now or never. I had one child at 17 and 2 more at ages 22 and 25, so it’s been nearly a decade since I’ve [...]

I am not a step-mama but I am daughter to a wonderful mom who is a ’step’ mother to some of my siblings. They lived with their mom for the first 5 years of my parents’ marriage then permanently lived with us. My mom went through many struggles but I think what helped her the [...]

If there is one thing that brings me the most happiness as a mother, it’s that I freely express my love for my children and joy in their being in my life to them. My children are deeply treasured, respected, and well-loved. And they know it, they know I love them and want to be [...]

I decided to turn off the comments feature on this blog, here’s hoping it will spur me to concentrate on writing great content instead of obsessively checking to see if anyone posted a comment yet.
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Let me say upfront: I do think most teens can’t handle parenthood due to the culture we live in i.e delayed childhood. But this is extending well into the 20s, so much so that there is a perception that women in their 20s are ‘too young’ to have kids. It’s gotten to the point where [...]

If you have any children over age 4 give them chores to do. My kids have to keep their rooms clean and each of them has 2 additional chores. My daughter, who is 18, has to clean out the fridge once a month and keep the shelves and inner door wiped down once a week. [...]

He is in 4th grade, and this is the grade I start letting my kids manage their own study time and homework meaning I don’t sit with them and watch them do their homework like in the earlier grades. I just ask them every day after study time, Did you do your homework? to check. [...]

Mom I’m going to band practice, later! This said moments after she came home from work.

My daughter plays bass in a punk rock band. They have a show lined up and are thinking about recording so they practice a lot, several times a week. Here she is leaving for practice.

She also goes to college full-time [...]

As you may know, I LOVE Sesame Street. Watching the show is one of my favorite childhood memories. My kids still love it too. Here are a couple of the Seseame Street dolls I collect, my big Elmo and sleepy eye-patch Ernie:

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“There never was a time when a major social problem was solved by beating a child. And there never will be such a time… For centuries adults have injured children and have lied about it, and other adults have heard those lies and then merely turned away… we must begin putting the blame where it [...]

Today is the first day of October, the launch of fall officially around here. October is one of my favorite months. We always get in a lot of late summer activities as well as fall stuff, and here in Northeast Ohio it is the only month of fall as some years we have snow as [...]