Children

By Trula • February 11th, 2009

I saw this question on a mama board I frequent:
Parents with two or more kids…what do you think about your family members wanting to take only one of your children at a time in order to spend time with them? do you allow relatives to regularly (I’m not talking every once in a while, I’m [...]

I’m having baby fever…a sudden intense longing to have another baby. I know it will pass, because I truly do not want more kids. But sometimes I miss my babies as well, babies.
This has been triggered by a lot of stuff. Yesterday I-bop went with me to our favorite thrift store, and then hung [...]

My son S-bop is 14 and is growing like a weed. This past year, he has grown so much. He stays hungry, when he is not sleeping, he is eating. He is a grow grow grow machine. Him last year, June 2007, he’s the one in glasses. note his height next to my daughter:

Here he [...]

I-bop finally got her new computer. She used part of her birthday money to get it, plus money she earned from her part-time job. It’s really nice! and really useful. She starts fall semester of her sophomore year of college next week.

See more progress on: Buy a laptop for my daughter

In my experience, YES
I have 3 children. Oldest, Middle, Youngest. When my kids were small I scoffed at birth order and was determined to parent them all the same. Now they are ages 19, 13, and 10, and somewhere along the way I realized I lost my drive to parent them ‘the same’. It’s impossible, [...]

Question: My room mate ignores her son. She feeds him and keeps him clean, but hardly ever talks to him or plays with him. She doesn’t spank him when he does something wrong but she will scream at him. He is only 3 years old. He gets bored and will start whining and following me [...]

My daughter is 19 and a freshman in college and has had a cell phone since she was 14 and a freshman in high school. I resisted the idea at first but gave in once she started high school because she was involved in a lot of activities and socializing. With the phone if she [...]

19 years ago today this time I was a 17-year-old senior in high school, sitting in class. Pregnant, due to deliver May 26th. She was born today!
Against all odds,this baby everyone fated would ruin my life(and I’d ruin hers) is a high school graduate, college student, model, and superstar.
There are no words to describe how [...]

You should encourage your kids to read! A love for reading is a gift and joy that will last your child’s whole life. I myself love to read and so do my children.
I would caution you on letting children read just anything. My parents let me read anything in the house so I often read [...]

One thing that worked with me when I was sensitive to criticism about my parenting was when the other person had ‘proof’ to back up what they were saying. Like when I used to spank (I haven’t hit my children in 9 years, yay!) folks saying, “Oh hitting your kids is wrong” just made no [...]

I got a question in an email from a woman who was being bullied by her doctor into consenting to circumcise her son. She wrote to me that she followed his advice and made an appointment to have her son circumcised. She wanted to cancel it but felt scared that they would have charges filed [...]

My husband and son T-bop playing while we waited on S-bop’s choir concert to start. I didn’t get any good pics of S-bop; I thought I’d set my camera to zoom in but I’d set it to zoom away, aaaargh!!
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I have one child who is a picky eater. This caused a lot of anxiety on my part until she was around 5ish and I had my second child and didn’t have time to indulge her finickiness anymore; meaning I could no longer make her separate meals. One of my older sisters gave me suggestions [...]

T-bop had a birthday recently! He is now 10 years old. Most of the party was outside but I had my hands full running after all the kids so could not take outside pics. Energy! Kids this age have so much energy and when they got [...]

I got hit, spanked, popped, whipped, belted, all of that when I was growing up. My parents believed in spanking as a method of discipline. Not once then and not once now am I glad or grateful that I got hit by my parents. The only thing it did for me was make me wish [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

“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 [...]

My son S-bop crawling in my then-apartment 1996. This apartment was so small! you can see the kitchen from the living room. Down the hallway were 2 more rooms, a small bathroom and a bedroom. Ibop shared the bedroom with my sister who stayed with us, and I slept in the living room. To the [...]

On a mother’s website I frequent a woman talked about buying a new teapot every 6 months or so because they get so grungy. I posted how to clean it and keep it looking new inside and out. This was one of the many housekeeping things I didn’t know about either. My mother-in-law taught me [...]

My son S-bop is 12 and in 7th grade this year. He decided he wanted to play football last year and asked me to sign him up for this year. I try to be supportive of my children but I truly didn’t want him to play. He is a regular-sized boy for his age and [...]

Last month My daughter auditioned for the Tyra Banks modeling show America’s Next Top Model. She is only 5′6 and the show required a height of at least 5′7, but she wanted to audition anyway because a few past winners were under 5′7 (for example Eva Pigford, winner of cycle 3, is just 5′6 1/2). [...]

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We went for a boat ride and hung out with Mercury Man’s parents on July 4th. We had a great time! It turned out to be an incredibly beautiful day. The day began kinda cloudy and gloomy, and looked like it might rain. But it didn’t!
This was a random beach ball that was floating way [...]

What is it with my kids and Mohawks? You might recall that I-bop had a mohawk a couple of years ago. T-bop has one now! He was actually going to get his dreads cut off and have a close cut for summer, then he decided on this. It’s a Dreadhawk! I love it, he reminds [...]

Ok, here are some more pics! My baby girl graduated from high school. I am so proud of her!!

My daughter and her friends are often so grown and mature in demeanor, yet they still play with toys and act like kids sometimes. Here she is at her 18th birthday party. She is on the see-saw with one of her best friends, I thought this was so cute!