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 parental…
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…
So, my question is… how do you keep calm in the middle of Lucy’s outbursts? I am really struggling with my 8yr old daughter… screaming crying, kicking.. you get the picture. I am having such a hard time keeping my patience as time goes on, mainly for the fact that it’s rubbing off on my…
(This is more like a “Friday Evening” Q & A since I forgot to schedule it to post while Elle and I were gone to camp. We just got home a few hours ago and wow, do I ever have a bunch to say about that… …another time and another day because although it was…