A friend and fellow mommy blogger (see her awesome In Love and Words) posted this on her Facebook wall this week, and debate ensued. I consider myself a gentle parent, but I have bad days. I have yelled at my kids on two different occasions. (I do not include the times Emmett bit me while nursing and I screeched involuntarily… Read more »
I’m finally at that point where, when people annoyingly ask me, “Are they sleeping through the night yet?” which at least one person has asked literally every day for the last 15 months, I can actually respond, “Yes!” most of the time. And now I’m sleeping like crap. You know that whole sleep training movement, where you supposedly teach your… Read more »
I am sick and tired of seeing parents around me undermining themselves as parents and then complaining because their kids don’t listen to them. If you tell your child that he or she has to behave because of one of these reasons, YOU’RE CREATING YOUR OWN PROBLEMS: Santa will put you on the naughty list / put coal in your… Read more »
Moms are frazzled. Moms are frumpy. Moms live in sweatpants and spitup-covered teeshirts that don’t fit. Moms look like MOMS, not people. You’ve seen the commercials, the sitcoms, the magazine articles, the joke cards and calendars and teeshirts and blah blah blah. I say this is FALSE. No one’s saying you have to be a MILF 24/7. But you don’t… Read more »
Part of the reason things have been so quiet around here is that the Family-in-Training — Daddy-in-Training, Mommy-in-Training, Miles, Emmett, a bullmastiff, a pug, and a Lynx Point Siamese cat — recently moved from Central Virginia to West Central Florida. It was a 14-hour drive with two babies, two dogs, and a cat that literally meowed. the. whole. time. I’ve never… Read more »