Last week when Megan so graciously allowed me to fill her in her comfy, cozy Monday spot here, I talked about how much I learn from my children daily. Many of the things I’ve learned since becoming a parent lay in the realm of the abstract – piercing joy, unspeakable devotion, life-changing love . . ….
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Oh The Places They’ll Go
By Stephanie In just about a week or so, school will be out. We don’t have any plans- ANY PLANS- for the entire summer. I predict that our backyard will be filled with cowboys and Clone Troopers. Balls will be thrown over the fence and into the gutters. Frogs will be rescued. Large quantities of…
A Dose of Humor – Have You Seen My Hat?
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…
The grains beyond age
By Beck Yesterday started off oddly, with me waking up to a silent computer. “What will I do now?” I thought, and then set about my day – getting all of us off to school (I was volunteering for the morning, The Baby crabbing alongside me, sorting and counting the supplies for the school’s breakfast…
Year-End Project
By Kelly The state of Minnesota apparently took an Instant Summer pill today. It’s so beautiful outside, it hurts. (Or maybe that’s just the 97-degree sunshine hitting my arms.) The kids in our neighborhood are riding bikes, shouting greetings, begging for another popsicle. According to one little girl, her whole body is boiling! As if…
Memories and Kindergarten Orientation
By Veronica Last week I took my oldest daughter to kindergarten orientation. I did not sleep well the night before. I lay in bed, rigid and worried. I could not relax. I could not break my mind from thinking of all the things that might go wrong. We seriously considered homeschooling. My sister and my…
Unexpected Education, by Megan Tietz of SortaCrunchy
Megan is the much-humbled, often-stumped mama to two smarter-than-she’ll-ever-be little girls. She advocates an uncomplicated approach to parenting at Simple Kids and writes about faith, mothering, and natural living (sorta) at SortaCrunchy. Five years ago this month, those two little lines turned up pink and I officially kicked off the all-day, all-night party that is…
Falling into Place
By Cassie Last year at this time I had started a new job. I was the office manager at a large daycare center. It was my first full time job! I was so excited going to the office everyday. I felt like it was my first steps to a real career. I soon realized that…
A Dose of Humor – Assessing Your Kindergarten Readiness
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…
Little Dolls
By Beck When I was young, I had very decided tastes in names: I liked them antique. I liked them flowery. I liked them long and rippling with syllables. Arabella! Cordelia! Sebastian! And then I got married and pregnant and found out that my husband expected to have some say in what our children would…