It's funny what you'll save

The day it happened there was no dish towel. I remember this clearly because the pants I wore are still stained from the colored paste of the birthday cake I was frosting -- long, fiery fingerprints of “passion pink” emblazoned forever down the sides of stone-washed GAP jeans, now folded and forgotten in the bottom of my closet. When I heard the high-pitched wail of my 9-year-old daughter on that day in long-ago January, however . . . there was no dish towel.

The child’s colorless, horrified expression sent me sprinting past her through the kitchen door to the front yard, where many of the neighborhood children...  Read More

Over-programmed Kids

There is a lot of chit chat going on out there about the number of extracurricular activities a child should be enrolled in. With all the talk of free-range children and the importance of unstructured play, parents are re-thinking whether Johnny should be in soccer AND piano, and if ballet AND violin are too much for little Janey.

Getting the kids settled into school over the last few weeks has been one thing, but now I'm trying to settle myself into their new activity schedules and it is proving to be quite an undertaking. You see, I am a self-confessed over-programmer.  Read More

 
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