What do we do three times a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year? Eat, of course. And how much preparation did you get on how to accomplish the activity that precedes eating while you still lived at home? How much preparation have you given to your child(ren) in that activity? We eat […]

I never thought of myself as one who was much affected by peer pressure, until this encounter: College.  Freshman year.  Hanging out with a sophomore and soccer teammate.  She recounts for me a party she went to over the weekend: at some point, one of the gals she was with had the bright idea to take […]

Caution is required At the end of my freshman year, I traveled to Europe for 6 weeks to see the sites and explore new cultures.  My father insisted on my getting a credit card, “In case of an emergency.” C-r-e-d-i-t  C-a-r-d.  This was a new concept for me.  Now, I knew what credit cards were […]

The days are long but the years are short.  That is how many of us feel when we look at your growing kids and remember when they were itty bitty.  It can be a stark reminder that there is much information we need to instill into them before the leave the nest.  Today we tackle […]

There is so much pressure put on parents these days, especially moms.  It often feels like a lose-lose proposition.  No matter what choice is made, there will inevitably be a critic.  Take breastfeeding, a highly polar issue.  If you choose to exclusively breastfeed, you get accused of not including dad and others on the bonding […]

The details and circumstances of my life leave me in kind of a limbo socially.  I’m 35.  I have 4 children.  I have no husband. I don’t quite fit in with the single, twenty-somethings who not only have youth that has passed me by, but have the freedom that comes with being unattached.  I am […]