School is about to start and after a mostly family oriented summer vacation, the kids will once again be spending a significant number of...

That said, I feel there is something especially difficult (even painful) about coming home after a vacation spent visiting a previous...

We were handed this little mantra as some kind of bandaid, I suppose, to make us feel empowered when we felt anything but…to try to...

I hate to break promises. I hate to so much so that I will almost never make a promise and will instead tell the kids I will “try to” do...

I really am not anti-technology. If anything, technology is anti-me. I am the person at the grocery store holding up the line because the...

Oh sweet repose, at last I see the hope of rest’s tranquility. The lights are spent, so too am I. The day’s bright sun has left the...

Allow me to explain. I have conceded to my children that everyone who knows at least one swear word will use it at some point in their...

A while back when I was at the pet store picking up food for the furrier members of the family, I ended up wandering into the aquarium...

It is a simple fact of life that I…you…we…are all going to have to deal with these kinds of people whether we like it or not. As much as...

Obviously, these dreams can be quite traumatic….Do you really want to be responsible for this? Please stop giving me homework…because, by...

Isn’t it nice not to feel all alone? Isn’t it wonderful that feeling we have when we are struggling, as parents, with something that has...

There are different types of children when it comes to the objects of their affection (obsession)…aka lovies. In this, each of my three...

These awesome sensations that I so wish to pass on to my children, ironically, are not meant to be passed on…. I can offer the necessary...

No…no…oh HELL NO! The picture above is part of a brain scan I had done a while back for reasons which are not pertinent to this post…and...

My eyes flew open at around 4am, without my conscious permission and before I was properly awake or even able to attempt to focus them....

Wait! You are telling me that the kids holding hands and singing in that Facebook picture actually have melt downs and occasionally try...

He looked up at me and declared, “why don’t beds float? We should make beds that float!” Or you could pay more attention to where you are...

I like to mentally file memories as a little trick to try to improve my memory in general. An example would be my Words I Never Thought I...

Spring is finally in the air! The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and it is time for a family tradition we like to call “learning...

I try not to take it personally when my kids unload their anger or frustrations on me. I understand that this can be an exasperating...