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Earlier this month it was time for my son to visit the doctor and he was almost certainly going to be getting at least one shot. He's been afraid of shots ever since he got a very traumatic one during an emergency room visit (traumatic f...
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One of my favorite parts of the movie "Elf".. actually scratch that. I'm a card-carrying Millennial. ALL of "Elf" is my favorite part. Do you know the part where they are introducing Buddy the Elf's dad Walter Hobbs to the viewers? They ...
Read the post →"Oh I would never read Junie B. Jones to my kids, she's such a bad influence!" If you are a parent of a 5+ child you've probably heard this before. Luckily I didn't hear it before I first started reading the Junie B. Jones series to my k...
Read the post →Every parent wants to get their kid to love reading. Ok, not all parents (no judgement.. mostly), but I'd say it's mostly a consensus that reading is an activity worth pursuing. Video games? That one's still up in the air (I'm pro btw, a...
Read the post →Every single dinner in our house needs to end with a dessert, and my kids will use every line in the book to get it. "Oh, but I ate my vegetables." "Oh, but I always get it." "Oh, but my little brother got one yesterday that was really b...
In order to get my kids upstairs, finally, to start getting ready for bed, we'll turn it into a game, a "chase me up the stairs" kind of game where either I chase them or they chase me. From my perspective it's clearly just a really fast...
When she was in Kindergarten, my daughter didn't like PE for one specific reason. Every time it was a PE day at school, she'd come home with a new horror story to tell of what antics a certain classmate was up to. Only going after her wh...
The idea of Papa Bear going out into the woods in the middle of the night to scare his own cubs is maybe a little over the top. It's all in good fun, apparently, but I can imagine the more real life version where this completely backfire...
My kids will start asking questions, and the questions are funny ones: why would Brother skip school? This is where I get to quietly pat myself on the back, because apparently if my kids ever get in bad trouble, hopefully at least they d...