parenting

I love my babies, but they’re NOT my whole world. They don’t make up my whole being.

Yelling, swearing, name calling, idle threats. Not my proudest mom moment, but I know a lot of you have been there too.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

When I made the decision to become a stay-at-home mother, the choice was an easy one.

Since the positive learning effects of doing homework are proven nonexistent by research, the choice on assigning homework is easy: Just don't.

During the second year, I had an epiphany. I began to understand what my friends had meant about my overprotectiveness.

The year we homeschooled our fourth-grade son, it seemed like the best idea. We no longer could afford the private school he had been attending, and weren’t sure the local public school was going to be a good fit.

The year we homeschooled our fourth-grade son, it seemed like the best idea. We no longer could afford the private school he had been attending, and weren’t sure the local public school was going to be a good fit.