Don’t look for the exit, because there isn’t one. At least not one I saw. For years, well, just about three for Sweetness and 15 months for Mr. Man to be exact, traveling any distance in the car has been a veritable nightmare. We’re talking take the next exit, go straight to the bar, do […]
Daily Ramblings
I typically have some pretty quick advice when it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, but when it comes to tweens and teens, my advice has to come from my studying and the advice of experts. I’m all about sharing personal experience here on Heligirl, so when Heather from Making it Work Mom commented on my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sweetness was driving me nuts last week. She was deeply entrenched in her “no” phase; using my floor as a toilet all week, refusing to get the hang of potty training; and was slapping her brother no less than 3,456 times a day. By Wednesday I was running out of patience with her. My focus […]
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 […]
