Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Health

  • Don't listen to your kids

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    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…

  • Seasonal delights

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    This morning I made Italian plum cake. My ten-year-old was helping me and it occurred to him to ask, “Are we going to Nana’s house tonight?” “No,” I answered. “Is someone coming over for dinner tonight?” he asked. “No,” I said, getting curious. “Why?” “Because you’re making cake so I thought it must be a…

  • Is it kids, parents, society, the water?

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    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…

  • Soccer Girl

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    There are a couple of areas of parenting in which I admit freely that I have given up. One of them was enrolling my kids in activities that would teach them the basics of group sports, especially those dreaded sports that depend on catching balls. You see, I grew up in a baseball and hockey…

  • Socialization and the Homeschooled Child

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    Homeschooling parents will tell you that the comment they get most often from well-meaning adults is that their homeschooled kids might not get proper socialization while being homeschooled. Usually the well-meaning adult has an example or two to give as proof of the deleterious effect of homeschooling on the social skills of children. Homeschooling parents…