Category: Parenting
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Old-tyme lemonade summer
Summers were very long in Michigan. And hot. You live in California and you think you know about heat? OK, so you may be inland and log hundred degree days as often as we coastal folks have fog, but you have dry heat. You have air conditioning. Close your eyes and take yourselves back to…
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King Tut!
I just finished putting together a field trip for my daughter’s homeschool group to visit King Tut at the deYoung in San Francisco. I remember when I was young and King Tut came on his first US visit. Time Magazine ran a big cover story, and it was Egypt-mania amongst all the kids I knew.…
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Roughing it, sorta
Last night, way later than either child’s bedtime, we returned home from a camping trip with friends. It was fun, exhausting, thrilling, and exasperating. Pretty much like parenting, right? The amazing thing is, my kids are ten and six, and this was the first time I’ve gone camping with them. I have lots of excuses.…
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Another saga of Busy Mommy
So I wrote a couple of days ago, or was that yesterday, about being overly busy. When I get overly busy, two things happen: One is that I cease remembering people’s names and other proper nouns. It’s like that’s the part of my brain that gets wiped to store excess information. When I’m really busy,…
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Is it kids, parents, society, the water?
I keep a little virtual sticky note on my computer of ideas for my blog. A long-running idea is summed up with “kids are different these days,” something someone said to me. I’ve been pondering it. Clearly something is different, but what is it? A friend e-mailed me because she saw a banner ad on…