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Parenting lesson #41: You have to clean up your messes.
Being essentially bedridden (on the couch) with my injury, I’m amazed at how many messes my children make that they don’t clean up, especially when all three are home all day. Have I not taught them...
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Parenting lesson #42: 21 anythings to make or break a habit.
The idea just popped into my head. My dad, ever the supportive one on the phone this weekend, was listening to me rant about how my kids don’t clean up after themselves. “You have to make them,” he...
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Parenting lesson #26: The best toys often aren’t toys
Ethan’s “pirate ship.” Points for the words “poop” and “butt head” on the flag. A month after the holiday gifts have been unwrapped, they remain strewn everywhere but where they should go – and for...
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Parenting lesson # 37: When dealing with curve balls and change-ups, you have...
The Washington Nationals have made it to the World Series for the first time ever (arguably). Our region is abuzz with excitement, and even if you don’t care about baseball, hang with me while I...
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Parenting lesson #34: You are an expert in everything, and when you’re not,...
Photo credit Carl Donohue When you become a parent, you don’t realize you know all that you know until your kids start to do really unintelligent things and you have to teach them how to stay alive....
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Parenting lesson #35: We’re all hypocrites.
“Mom, where’s the whoop cream? I can’t find it!” rang out as the bathroom door swung open. The voice in my head responded with, “Whyyyyyyy? Didn’t I JUST tell you I was going to use the bathroom and...
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Ideas for you and your kids while it feels like summer but it’s colder,...
As an extreme extrovert, staying at home for days-on-end is not typically something that sounds like a good time to me. But we’ve so far been making this coronavirus quarantine work. (I mean, I’m at...
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Parenting lesson #43: Our reactions matter: the best exhibit ever
Today is world famous anthropologist and U.N. Ambassador of Peace Jane Goodall’s birthday. I can’t think of a better way to honor her than to tell this story. Before the world came to a standstill, I...
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It’s never too late to pursue a passion
How can you not adore them? “What Not to Wear” was a show that, despite every episode following the same monotonous formula, viewers never seemed to tire of watching. I think the allure was both Stacy...
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Folks, family, friends, readers … all seven of you: I have semi-retired from posting any new content here. (If I could hand you a box of tissues, I would.) Before you ugly cry, though, fear not! It’s...
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