Parenting
For the Moms Who Don’t Get Reviews or Raises
It’s the end of my second week at my new job. Oops. Did I forget to mention that? I took a full time position as Director of Social Engagement for Feed The Children. What an impressive group of people, and the leadership there? So much respect. I still can hardly believe I get to work…
Read MoreDispatches from Life Skills Bootcamp – Week One
We survived our first week of Life Skills Bootcamp. The expectations this week were simple: make your bed and pick everything up off the floor by 9am or you lose a dollar. Here’s the highlights, and a few low lights too. (Not sure what this is? Start here.) How I’m Doing I keep telling myself…
Read MoreTales from Life Skills Summer Kids Bootcamp: Day One
It’s Day Two of our Life Skills bootcamp, and I’m happy to report that everyone’s room passed inspection yesterday. Today, we’re having an all-day It’s-Summer-Vacation movie fest, and I suspected that I was the only one who remembered to make my bed. I decided to remind them that I’ll be doing a room inspection around…
Read MoreBuilding Life Skills: A Summer Bootcamp for Kids (FREE printable!)
I have known for years that as a parent, my job isn’t to make my kids happy. As my friend Missy wrote, I don’t want my kids to be happy. My job, as their mom, is to prepare them to be decent hard-working independent adults. That means teaching them things they don’t want to learn,…
Read MoreWhat Would You Say to Women Dreaming of Career AND Family?
This afternoon, I ran across an interesting question: “If you were giving a commencement speech, what’s one piece of advice you’d give to young women who want to include motherhood in their futures?” These young women are motivated. They’re graduating college, and if they’re anything like my friends and I were, they have big dreams.…
Read MoreAin’t No Fortunate One
As soon as the band began rocking out, that grin flashed across her face like lightning. Some folks are born to wave the flag, Ooh, they’re red, white and blue. And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”, Ooh, they point the cannon at you. It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no…
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