Preschool Age Milestone Charts (According to the Moms in Your Playgroup)
Here’s just one of the fun bits from Jen Singer’s Stop Second Guessing Yourself — The Preschool Years, available now at a bookstore near you and online. Age Milestone 36 months Potty trained, even through the night and on long car trips involving the consumption of copious amounts of water (no sugar here!) and bowel-juggling [...]
We All Feel Your Pain, Mom
The “seafrost”-colored Jaguar approached the 4-way stop sign at the same time my mini-van did. I was dashing from dropping off my son and his friend at school for a before-hours business class, and on my way to the gym. The driver of the Jaguar, I assumed, was heading to some important business meeting or perhaps to [...]
Seasonal Shoe Disorder Causes Headaches and Tripping
You know you’re transitioning from one season to the next when you can’t find matching shoes. We have one red boot still missing from the summer, as are the matches for two right-footed sneakers that belong to my children. No matter. They don’t fit anyone here anyhow.
Provocative Headline with a #$%ing Curse Word, SEO Friendly Term (Blog, Mom) and a Secret Revealed
Some of the comments were a tad harsh, if not biting. The writers are just going to have to get used to that, though I’m not sure if you ever truly can, even when you’re a grown-up who has been called, among other things, an F— Trophy.
Parents TV Captures a Good (Hair) Day
Luckily, my husband can work from home or else I wouldn’t have made it to the set. I was scheduled to shoot a video about parenting preschoolers, based on my book, Stop Second-Guessing Yourself — The Preschool Years, for Parents TV yesterday at noon. But at 4 a.m., I was getting my son some Motrin [...]
Save the Elephants? I Can't Even Save My Coupons.
I cannot, will not save the elephants. It’s not that I don’t care about them, or the fact that, as one e-mail sent to me this morning implored, they may go instinct within 15 years. I care. I really do. But some days –okay, most days– I can barely manage my own wheelhouse let alone [...]
The Idiot's Guide to Sick Days
Here’s an important lesson I learned this weekend: When you have a cold, do not go coach four soccer games unless you can do so silently. And that’s impossible for most coaches, especially me. I yelled, I cheered, I shouted, I blew my nose. I am an idiot.
