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Mistake #1 Parents Make With Teenagers: Expecting the Worst

I am like any other parent…clearly imperfect.  I have made a lot of mistakes and am pretty sure there is more to come.  But I am also a mom who believes in learning from those mistakes, which is what brings me to this five part series on mistakes we parents make with teenagers. The first one we are going to look at is the mistake of expecting the worst out of your teen.  Sometimes this starts long before they’ve even reached this stage, so it might help parents whose children aren’t quite there yet. When my children were in elementary … Continue reading →

Bedtime for Devices

I was always one of those parents who had a bag full of “nevers.”  You know what I mean.  “I will never allow my child to…”  Fill in the blank. It’s so easy before you have children to say what you will never do.  And it’s just as easy when they are young to say what you will never do when they get older. Sure, some of my “nevers” I have stuck to.  But there have been a few I tossed to the side.  And in all honesty, at times it was a matter of not wanting to battle. One … Continue reading →

Cleaning Up After a Sick Child

It was a lovely Saturday, or it would have been if I hadn’t woken up to a three year old throwing up on me. Poor little thing. Ivy spend the night last night and got sick in both of our beds. I don’t think my washer has run this much in one day since Hailey was little. Cleaning up vomit is never fun but if you don’t get to it immediately it will stain. So if you have a sick kid, as soon as you get them cleaned up throw the bedding in the tub, especially if it’s the middle … Continue reading →

Exercise and the Single Mother

It’s amazing the toll that pregnancy can take on our bodies. Before I had my son I could eat anything I wanted and it never showed. I could eat ice cream all day every day if I wanted and no one would know the difference. After my son was born reality set in. My metabolism just wasn’t what it used to be, my body would never be the same again. I didn’t have a lot of trouble with the initial baby weight coming off, but no matter what I did my body just didn’t look the same anymore. Pregnancy had … Continue reading →

Two Aging Playboys in Trouble

Some men and women think of Gene Simmons and Hugh Hefner as the ultimate playboys. After all, Simmons has been a rock star for almost 40 years. By his own admission, Simmons believes he has slept with almost 5,000 women in his lifetime. Despite that fact, he has been with his partner, Shannon Tweed, such as it is, for the past 28 years. Although the two never married, they had two children together and seem to live in a harmonious if not exactly monogamous state. But, that may not be the case anymore. Simmons and Tweed have often bickered about … Continue reading →

The Wrong Order

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Order is an important thing. Whether you’re talking about how to put a hamburger together or how to put on your pants, the ordering of how things are done is important. If I zip up and button the pants before I put my legs in, I’m going to have trouble. While this seems obvious to must of us concerning our daily routines, it is not obvious to children. Our son has recently demonstrated his sometimes confused sense of order to tasks that we take for granted. Years of simply doing things have habitualized certain behaviors and tasks into things we … Continue reading →

We’re Broke! Why Do We Need a Financial Planner?! Part 1

After my divorce, the financial planner who had worked with my former husband and I continued to call me every six months or so, wondering if I was ready to put a new financial plan into place. I was flattered, if a little confused, about why he was bothering with me. I had primary physical custody of our infant daughter, I was receiving no financial support from her dad, and I was working for a notoriously underpaying local non-profit. Let’s face it, I was broke. The answer to the question, of course, is that it is an undisputed fact that … Continue reading →

How Much Sheltering is Too Much?

My daughter has a chronic health condition, so there are precautions I need to take on a daily basis to ensure she stays as healthy as possible. These are considerations other parents never think of that have become second nature to me and to my husband as well. There are people who don’t seem to get that. On Labor Day we took Maggie to her first fair, complete with animals to pet and kiddy-rides that spin. She loves to spin. She had such a good time that she cried when we tried to leave, so we turned around and went … Continue reading →

Pregnant and in Prison

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a woman was pregnant and had to go to jail for a long time? I would hope none of my readers would ever face such a situation, but it does happen. Unfortunately, most stories do not have good endings. As I poured through dozens of accounts of incarcerated women and their pregnancies, I realized that childbirth is not a time of joy and excitement for many imprisoned women, instead, the experience is tainted with fear and the dread of leaving their babies, possibly forever. In 1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported … Continue reading →

Marriage Has Changed

Yesterday’s blog was the result of reading ‘A Household Guide to Dying’ by Debra Adelaide where she talked about shirts. In one passage she talks of shirts being the reason given for a famous actor’s breakdown of her marriage.‘The symbol of the married woman’s unscripted yet unavoidable role in the relationship. No clause in the contract stipulating the care and maintenance of the make shirt yet somehow they took over, with their demands to be soaked, ironed, fresh and alert on hangers for the next excursion into working world. It took a stout feminist to withstand the onslaught of the … Continue reading →