by Amy LeForge | Jul 3, 2013 | Adolescence
There comes a time (*tears*) that your little one (who isn’t so little anymore) will flee the coop (*sniff*) to create a life for himself. All that parenting you’ve done will finally be tested in the real world. His college adventure will have its road...
by Amy LeForge | Jul 3, 2013 | Parenting
Do you have a brother or sister you’ve never met? It’s not all that uncommon. Parents get remarried, biological mothers and fathers drift out of their children’s lives, and adopted children struggle to discover the family trees of their birth family....
by Amy LeForge | Jun 28, 2013 | Baby
When I was a little girl, one of the super fun things about my dad being a college professor was going down to the computer lab and playing with the punch card computer. If you ever get to see a video of one in action, do it. For little kids in particular, this was a...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 27, 2013 | Parenting
About four billion years ago, during our solar system’s infancy, there was a mighty cosmic collision. A slightly smaller planet than ours – roughly the size of Mars – slammed into Earth, a catastrophic event that nearly wiped out our world. But it was a...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 25, 2013 | Family Builder
In some families the only communication that happens is when we’re passing one another in the hall or going out the door or at bedtime when everyone is tired. Everyone goes and does their own thing without really seeing each other. And so communication breaks...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 20, 2013 | Adolescence
It’s gotten fairly common over the years for product review requests to show up in my inbox. Without overinflating my importance to the planet, I do take those requests seriously and do my best to look at the items carefully. I’m also careful about exactly what...
