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Spring or Summer?

by Michele Cheplic

22 Mar 2012 08:01 PM

Mother Nature is having hot flashes in March and I am loving every minute of it. From a mother of an outdoorsy second grader to the Mother of all things outdoors, thank you.

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Who Watches Your Kids on Vacation?

by Michele Cheplic

Can you really have a relaxing vacation when you are constantly breaking up fights between your tweens while looking for the purple pail and shovel set that your preschooler MUST have NOW or ELSE?

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Cooler Than the Jonas Brothers?

by Valorie Delp

Last Friday at four o'clock in the morning, my husband and I dragged all five of our children out of bed and went down to Bryant park in New York City to see the one. . .the only. . .the incredible. . .

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Parental Motivation

by Kori Rodley Irons

Recently a relatively new parent shared with me that she was having a "motivation problem"-you would think that an old crusty mom like me would have heard it all, but for some reason, this was the first time I'd chatted with someone who was having a hard time getting up and getting going at all i...

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When the Noise Gets to You

by Kori Rodley Irons

I know that my years of parenting have increased my tolerance for all sorts of things: mess, chaos, whining, and noise. It is amazing how quickly we acclimate.

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Me and Scooby Doo

by Myra Turner

A funny thing happened Sunday while I was alone. Tyler was with his father watching the football games and I was sitting in the hotel reading the newspaper and flipping the channels trying to find something half-way interesting to watch on TV.

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Daily Dose of Laughter

by Myra Turner

Maybe I'm just old but I really don't get half the programs on Cartoon Network. But apparently kids do. As I sit listening to the rain pound against my hotel window (we're under a tornado watch!) Tyler is absorbed in that silly program about the Grim Reaper. Bill and Mandy or something like that.

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Are You Too Time Conscious?

by Kori Rodley Irons

I am working on letting go a bit on the whole "time thing"-as someone who has been on a schedule for years-work, kids, volunteer projects, coaching sports teams, Girl Scout meetings, etc. I have stayed pretty connected to the clock.

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Take a Parenting Time-Out

by Myra Turner

In a previous blog I wrote about an article I read that detailed quirky rules that work. One of the rules was to tell your kids that you're basically off mom duty at a certain time. The goal was to assure that mom had an opportunity each day to have some "me" time.

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Dinner Without the Kids and Without the Guilt

by Myra Turner

I told myself that I deserved to have just one meal that I could enjoy in peace. So when I had the opportunity to eat dinner without Tyler I wasn't going to alter my plans unless it was an emergency.

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