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…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Veruca Salt And Light
By Beck The Baby just returned from a walk with her Papa and my cousin Ben, chocolate bar in hand. It is 10:30 in the morning. “You bought her a chocolate bar?” I asked my dad, a bit incredulously. “I had to,” he said. “She cried about it.” “Yep,” said The Baby, happily eating her…
Soccer Mom
By Kelly I earned a new badge today. I am now, officially, a soccer mom. My five-year-old son started practicing with a bunch of fellow pre-kindergarteners this morning. I don’t know who was more excited, him or me. Because this isn’t just his first venture into team sports – it’s also mine. The way my…
A Little Girl Prays for Iran
By Veronica I was sitting at the computer, looking at pictures of the election protests in Iran. My four-year-old daughter was up past her bedtime, due to a late nap. She saw the photos on the screen and clambered into my lap. “What’s that picture of, Mommy?” “That is a picture of people in a…
Heaven Can Wait. (Spongebob Saves the Day.)
By Megan Bean and I sat over lunch the other day and I coaxed her to eat her carrots the same way I always do: Make sure you eat all those carrots, they’ll help you grow up big and strong. “Will I be bigger than YOU if I eat my carrots?” “Well, not immediately bigger…
Yes, I noticed your passive-aggressive jab, perfect stranger
By Gretchen The zoo is the Roman Coliseum of mothering, where strollers are skillfully jockeyed for prime penguin viewing spots and picnic lunches are compared. We go a lot. A family membership pays for itself in one visit when you have seven children, so I think of our local zoo as an elaborate park. There…
A Dose of Humor – Toddler Pox
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…
Sunshine
By Beck It’s been an unusually cold couple of weeks here, and even though intellectually I know that my kids will be out of school in mere days (ten school days left, I think), emotionally I still think that it’s months and months away. Technically, the kids will still be in school for a few…
An A+ Family
By Kelly I tried not to eavesdrop, but it was hard not to listen. “Some families are just out of control,” said one of the voices. “I mean, seriously.” I glanced sideways at the table next to ours. We were sitting in the dining room of a nice hotel, enjoying the final moments of the…
The Well-Worn Heart
By Veronica This post was originally published in May 2007 on Veronica’s personal blog, Toddled Dredge. Veronica now has four children, the youngest of whom will be weaned soon. “The Well-Worn Path” remains just as true now as it was then. “We are in love with him already, ” a friend told me, when she…