Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
5 Ways Teenage Romance was Better in the 80’s & 90’s
Teenage romance…there’s nothing like it. It is the stuff dreams are made of and romance in the 80’s and 90’s was nothing if not dreamy. {Disclaimer: my romantic experiences were pretty limited growing up, but my dreams were big. I mostly longed for my objects of affection from afar, waited for my life to unfold…
Read MoreA Last Minute Guide for Detoxing from Summer and Getting Ready for the School Year
So here we are…summer is winding up despite my efforts to cling to it by my fingernails. To give you an idea about how we approach summer here, picture one big house party. The rowdy kind where chips get ground into the carpet and you are the hostess but there are people walking through your house…
Read More6 Questions That Will Help You Raise Kind and Inclusive Kids
I’m over at Parent.co writing about about a tough topic, the time I was the Mean Girl…. I have a mean girl story. Actually, like you probably do, I have a few of them. But the one I won’t ever forget is the time that the mean girl was me. When I was 13, I…
Read MoreThe Question I Dread
I had just gotten out of the shower, wet towel still wrapped around my head when our youngest, Nick, burst into the room and looked me squarely in the eye and asked the question I was dreading. It is a question that inevitably comes up in countless households as the holiday season is quickly approaching:…
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