Recent Parents Blog | Rest & Relaxation PostsWho Watches Your Kids on Vacation?by Michele Cheplic09 Jul 2009 09:05 AMCan 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? Cooler Than the Jonas Brothers?by Valorie Delp14 Aug 2008 12:49 AMLast 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. . . Parental Motivationby Kori Rodley Irons11 Feb 2008 04:39 PMRecently 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... When the Noise Gets to Youby Kori Rodley Irons10 Feb 2008 08:06 AMI 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. Me and Scooby Dooby Myra Turner03 Dec 2007 02:09 PMA 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. Daily Dose of Laughterby Myra Turner25 Nov 2007 06:55 PMMaybe 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. Are You Too Time Conscious?by Kori Rodley Irons09 Nov 2007 11:26 AMI 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. Take a Parenting Time-Outby Myra Turner01 Nov 2007 06:52 AMIn 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. Dinner Without the Kids and Without the Guiltby Myra Turner31 Aug 2007 08:19 AMI 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. Do You Suffer From One-More-Itisby Myra Turner17 Aug 2007 07:16 AMA common complaint moms have is that there is never enough hours in the day. We also complain that we never have enough "me" time. One reason we may not be able to finish everything on our to-do list or snag a little me time is a little disease I like to call one-more-itis. Recent Blog Comments ruthann8 says... "The other day we were leaving Wal-Mart and my baby decided to throw a full blown tantrum b/c she didn't get any candy." ruthann8 says... "I choose do my college internship in Juvenile Probation b/c I thought I could help guide trouble children/teenagers lives." |
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