by Amy LeForge | Jan 23, 2012 | Adolescence
One of the 9 year olds made a comment the other day that something or other was black, and his twin immediately accused him of being racist. What????!? I called them over to chat, and eventually determined they’d learned from older brothers that talking about...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 19, 2012 | Baby
Being a new mom is an exhilarating experience. No one can rival the extent of love a mother feels for her new born baby. Once the heady initial days are over, a new mother faces new challenges which she often finds hard to cope with. If you are a young mom, you may...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 15, 2012 | Adolescence
Soooo yea. Teenagers. I’m still wrapping my mind around the whole concept of parenting two of them. Thankfully, while they do drive me a little batty, for the most part they’re not terribly awful as of now. I’m learning that I need to think back to...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 9, 2012 | Parenting
Whether or not I’m a good Mom is very important, both to me and ultimately to my kids. Heck, it’s important to my future grandkids as well. If you go to a bookstore and look in the family section, you can find a LOT of books on parenting. Just type the...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 5, 2012 | Parenting
(Editor’s note: please welcome this guest post from Jane about teaching responsibility. Thanks Jane!) How Children Learn to be Responsible In an age where cheating in school is at an all time high and people often value good results over hard work, many parents...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 4, 2012 | Adolescence, Parenting, Tween
We’ve had rather an interesting conversation in the comments of my most recent post on parental anger. If you haven’t been following it, do pop over and take a read. Essentially, I wrote that I was angry with the boys. Beat said that he almost never gets...
