Category: Parenting
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Don't listen to your kids
This morning our daughter came in “to cuddle” sometime long before seven a.m. In our household, this is against the rules. On weekends, she needs to wait till 7 a.m. before she can interrupt her parents’ beauty sleep. Groggily, her daddy said, It’s not seven o’clock yet. Go back to bed. She went away. It…
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Aquarium dreams
The other day, my sister and her daughter were here, visiting from the Midwest. My niece and I were looking at our aquarium, and my sister said, “Oh, no, don’t you get any ideas! I don’t need any more trouble.” They have two dogs and a cat or two, and my sister doesn’t need any…
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Pushing my feminist buttons
We went today to get my daughter’s hair hacked off. Actually, to get it very professionally cut off by the stylist who does my and my husband’s hair. Usually I cut my kids’ hair myself. But this was one job I wasn’t willing to take on. At one point, my daughter’s hair was approaching waist…
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The day froggie visited our house…a story of busy hands
Weird things can happen when you bring your kids to browse at the Educational Resource Center. My daughter has always been interested in biology, so it’s no surprise when she picks up a biology-related activity. But my son, although he loves nature, gravitates toward the cold-blooded sciences when given his choice: computers, physics, computers, books,…
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Road trip!
Well, we made it, and I’m exhausted. In the space of four days, we drove straight to Carlsbad, went to Legoland, drove to Morro Bay, did lots of cool beach-related stuff, and drove home. If it doesn’t sound like a lot, first take into account the number of traffic jams we endured (one on the…