Musings on the three most important things in my life; my husband, my kids and my Little Yellow Notepad
My daughter is in high school. My daughter left to high school. My only daughter left home and is now in high school. I am in high school I mean, my daughter is in high school. Yes, I’m having a hard time! What’s so hard about it? She left. She’s in high school. And that… Continue reading High School?!
I’m not really sure when it happened. For the longest time, just by my being, I was able to assert my authority over my kids. After all, they had to look up to talk to me. I was taller than them all. And then suddenly, without much warning, I am the one looking up. I… Continue reading They grow so quickly … or do they?
“You’re child is uncooperative and disrespectful.” I nod, trying to keep myself together. “Your child is not behaving and not following directions.” Keep it together, keep it together, I tell myself. They are not saying that YOU are misbehaving, they are talking about your child. But still I feel shame creeping through me, enveloping me. They’re… Continue reading When my child misbehaves…is it a sign of failed parenting?
Last month marked ten years that I’m in the parenting business. Unlike any other professions where at the ten year mark you’ve mastered the skills and are ready for a promotion and a raise...the rules of the parenting business is different. Can’t say the skills are mastered...or that there’s any raise coming...or a promotion from… Continue reading Have you failed parenting?
"Fight? Why would my kids fight? No, they don't fight." Oh. I kind of half smiled, sure it was a joke. It wasn't. I was catching up with an old friend, a rare occasion considering where I live. And like all good moms who catch up, we inevitably were talking about our kids. And my… Continue reading Mommy Survival Rule #3,721
