If you’ve never had to nag, remind or yell in an attempt to get kids to listen, please raise your hand? (sound of crickets) Ahh, I thought so. I know I’ve beat my head against the wall way too many times as my children suddenly become deaf or develop selective hearing the moment I need […]
Parenting Tidbits
When I was growing up, the rules in our house were pretty similar to those in most households of the 70s and 80s: do something the parents don’t approve of, get punished. My brother and I were spanked with hands and wooden spoons. (In fact, I remember they even had a paddle in grade school […]
It’s been three weeks since my commitment to do something special with the kids once a week before Labor Day. On July, 20, I researched and wrote a list of the things I really wanted to do. Today we checked yet another one off the list. This morning, as rush hour was coming to an […]
It might happen the moment you bring baby number two home. It may not rear its ugly head until that younger child starts moving under her own power. If you’re really lucky, it may even start a little later. But make no mistake, siblings will fight and it will test you, possibly to the point […]
We continued on in our quest to potty train yesterday. For the full back story, be sure to check out Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. And if you’re looking forward to returning to my regularly scheduled programming, this here report from the bloody war front of Butt Camp is the last of this […]
Welcome to Day 3 of my little experiment to see if I can finally save $100 a month in diapers. After two years and 10 months of diapers I decided to try a little experiment to see if my little Sweetness, who was showing all the signs of readiness for potty training, would take the […]
It’s Day 2 of my Potty Training in Three Days or Less challenge. To catch up on the background of why on Earth I’d do this and read all about the first day, please click here. Go ahead, I”ll wait… Back? Ok. Just to prepare you, I have to say, after an encouraging end to […]
Sweetness is two months shy of her third birthday and the potty training issue has been driving us insane. For the past eight months she’s shown complete interest in sitting on the potty that lead to her using it once, then none, then interest again including the “big girl potty,” then complete lack of interest […]
