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The Price of Pleasing a Boy

Isn’t very high really. There are so many things I can do: listen to him describe the next gadget he’s going to invent watch him leap off the ladder into the pool for the umpteenth time have a good stock of freezer pops at the ready wrestle him to the...

My Exciting Career as Game Show Host

I still haven’t written my mega post on the Love and Logic approach.  I will, I promise.  I have tons to say about it.   I think it will be easier to discuss if I have some examples already posted, so this is my next one. A big issue for me is getting impatient...

Birthday Meme

Thanks to Linda at The Ugly Mailbox I get to play in a Meme. 🙂 Here’s how this one works: You go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 2 births, 1 holiday, and tag 5 friends. There are five slots in the meme...

The bucket story

Winter 2006 On Saturday The Manager(age 3) coughed so hard he gagged and threw up on 2 separate occasions. Small town life means no doctors on the weekend unless we go to the ER, so we decided to just survive till Monday and then call for the appt. Meanwhile, we tried...

Not to worry, I rescued him

I spent the last hour or so writing my most recent post on parenting.  This caused me to be tired. Especially since I wrote it sitting on my incredibly (old) soft and comfy couch.  So I closed my eyes and snoozed here in the living room for just a few minutes.   While...