I’ll get to Bear Lake soon, but for now, let’s talk about forcing a good memory. I’ve talked about it before with my kids. Sometimes you just have to pack those grumblers in the car and go, or be a “durable object” for them at home when they don’t want to do something you know…
We saw some pretty wing-dinger gorgeous things the last day of driving on our whirlwind road trip. Which was a pretty great way to break up that long drive. We woke up to this view: And drove to this view in Zion’s National Park: I had never been there and have tried to make it…
So here’s another good mothering question: This has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but I really value your mothering expertise and I need some advice and don’t know how else to ask you ha! Our 10 year old daughter is a sassy pants and can just be a bully to her siblings sometimes….
Hi Shawni! I have been following and loving your blog for about six years now. I need your advice.I have two kids 20 months apart and I just barely found out I’m pregnant. The gap between my 2nd and 3rd will be 18 months. This wasn’t my plan at all, we were trying to prevent…
I keep thinking about this young mother I saw leaving Walgreens a while back. She was carrying a baby and she had a toddler clinging onto her leg in a state of frantic bawling. I’m not talking whimpering, I’m talking howling. The mother couldn’t move. Yet there was something in her face that spoke to me….
I realized this morning, in the midst of snapping at Dave before breakfast, that I have been a horrible example of patience and “shining” lately. Last night I sent Lucy to bed screaming her head off (she has been extra “stompy” and stubborn lately and I reached the end of my rope). I didn’t even…
I am hoping/praying you will consider devoting a few blog posts to the whole mystery of parenting a teenager. My oldest is 15 and we are entering uncharted territory. I would like to know your “guidelines/rules” on such things as dating, curfews, school dances/formals, places they are able to go with their friends (without…
Education was never really pushed with my family or my spouses, which, now that i am grown up, i could strangle my parents/in law… Can you tell me how you talk to your kids to get it through to them that it’s not really an option, that further education is expected. or have they figured…
How do you deal with things when your ‘dropping a ball’ causes another person to be annoyed? …The problem is that I then tend to go into a bit of a tailspin of trying to do everything ‘properly’ which of course isn’t possible and doesn’t do anything to help me get my priorities right (“No children,…