I was talking to another mom in my daughter’s homeschool program the other day, when she happened to mention her age. She has kids just a bit younger than mine, and she’s still in her twenties. No wonder she’s so much fun, I thought. Her back isn’t killing her yet! Seriously: I have never regretted…

I will never forget when I went to visit my older sister in North Carolina after she’d had her first baby. She was not only four years older than me; she started the whole marriage and family thing a decade younger than I did. So I was still quite young and not at all thinking…

Another thing I’ve been wanting to write about in relation to my articles about alternative treatments for behavior problems is Omega-3. (See my Resource List for links to research I did.) Omega-3 is a fat found most commonly in fish, but also in a variety of other sources. Ask your parent or grandparent about something…

Have I mentioned that I was dragged into homeschooling kicking and screaming? You see, I started on this for my daughter’s sake, not for mine, and for her sake I’ve been noticing lots of things about my parenting. Case in point: games. I remember vividly when a parent related to me once said, “I don’t…

My son turned ten. It’s pretty momentous to add a digit to your age. But despite the fact that it is basically an artificial milestone, I think it has been really interesting to see how he’s changed in the last year. The “tween” phenomenon is largely a marketing ploy. But there is definitely something going…