5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. Now you can…
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Gruff
By Beck I just got back from watching a classroom performance of The Three Billy Goats Gruff – my son was a very appropriately gruff-voiced troll, crouched underneath a set of classroom play stairs. The three little goats were three little girls, title of the play to the contrary, and they traipsed over the stairs…
The Lilacs
By Kelly The lilacs are blooming. Nothing says early summer to me quite like a bush rich with amethyst blossoms. They are ubiquitous right now, strewn willy-nilly around the neighborhood, equally at home on a freeway overpass as they are in the front yard of a much-loved cottage. The air is perfumed with their innocent…
Summer Song
Today is the first of June which means that in roughly ten weeks, my oldest daughter will begin her first year of public school. In our state, four year olds can go to (all day) Pre-Kindergarten, but they are not required to attend. Dacey has been talking about school non-stop for the past year, and…
Family Game Night
By Mary One of our favorite morale boosters is family game night. We’ve discovered a bunch of games over the years that are fun for large numbers of people. Some games are totally chance and can easily be played by people of all different ages. If there is an element of skill involved, you can…
Where oh where did my baby go?
By Cassie Aiden has been especially cuddly this morning. He wants to be held and cuddled and kissed. Quite frankly I don’t mind one little bit. As he climbed up on my lap this morning something hit me. No longer can he snuggle up and fit perfectly in my arms. His legs are dangling over…
A Dose of Humor – mmm, mmm Good!!!
5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. Now you can…
Babies
By Beck My daughter’s grade four class has had a visitor every other week over the past school year. A baby has come to her class, and the kids charted her development and took pictures of her and sang her songs and this past week, the class baby turned one. “Babies grow up so fast,…
Lessons Learned
By Kelly To parent successfully, one must be both teacher and student. Here is what I’ve learned from my children this past week. Note: This is an abridged version. Dialing 911 even in the middle of sequence still calls 911. Guess which 16-month-old doesn’t get to play with the phone anymore? Personal aside to the…
Pride Rides the Swing
By Veronica I had taken all four children to the park to enjoy the beautiful weather. I had the baby strapped into a carrier on my chest, and I was pushing my four year old on the swing. The two year old and five year old were playing on the slides. Another mom put her…