Parenting is HARD. Anyone who says differently is a liar. You are given the biggest, most important job of your life with no specific instructions or user manual or anything. And heaven help you if you try to Google the best way to parent. There are so many different styles of parenting – authoritative, permissive, authoritarian, attachment, free range, slow,…
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My daughter bought an iPod with her birthday money, and it is killing my son. He started by asking for an iPad, then a Kindle Fire, then any tablet, then an iPod, and then a laptop. Then he started asking for “any device.” After telling him that, at five years of age, he is too young for electronics he began asking…
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Despite my love for organization, I am almost always late, and my husband is no better. To give you an example, we were both late to our own wedding. As a result, our children are also almost, always late. Related: I’m Late Because You Aren’t My Priority I say this so that you will understand the Herculean effort it has…
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What’s scarier than a little girl dressed up as a witch? A callow fear monger dressed up as a Christian.
Preacher’s Kids…..A Bad Rap or an Earned Rep? About a year ago, I walked into the fellowship hall at our church and saw the preschool teacher looking down a hallway. From my angle, I couldn’t see who she was talking to, and she hadn’t heard me walk in. She was in the middle of reprimanding a kid, and I caught…
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This year, like every year, my kids have a school supply list that includes way more items than they can possibly use. I know why. I know that part of the 32 glue sticks on their school supply lists will go to other children in their class because their parents did not send any glue sticks. And while I am all…
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Three Easy Ways to Simplify Menu Planning I heart planning. Like for real. Last year, I used some most of my Christmas money to buy myself an awesome Erin Condren planner. It has surpassed my every expectation and has truly been worth every dollar. Every time I see it sitting on my desk with its bright happy cover, I immediately…
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How to Stop Housekeeping from Stealing Your Joy The hearth of our fireplace is shaped like a bench. On this six foot wide platform, most days you will find a line of laundry baskets filled with the clean clothes we wear most often. And by most days, I mean almost every day. When we put out milk and cookies…
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When I was sixteen and knew everything, I had a conversation with my boyfriend about how ridiculous it was that his mother didn’t work. Sure, his dad was a doctor and they didn’t need the measly income she’d make using her teaching degree, but she’d gone to school and earned that degree. She should want to use it! Why…
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How To Transition to Stay at Home Mom When I was training to become a teacher, I had a lot of experienced teachers warn me about the difficulties I would face. One teacher told me that she once had a 7th grader put a pencil down his throat to induce vomiting so he could get out of a pre-algebra test. I…
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