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Smacked Upside the Head

Have you ever had something happen to you that was so … mindblowing, it rocked your whole world? I bet you have – no one is immune. Mine came this summer, and the aftershock hit me just the other day. We’ve been having a lot of health problems, and this last summer we found a holistic doctor who understands just what’s going on with us. (This is awesome – we’ve been looking for years with no luck.) As we’ve undergone treatment, he has discovered that my children’s ability to process information in their brains is diminished, due to a whole … Continue reading →

Smacked Upside the Head

Have you ever had something happen to you that was so … mindblowing, it rocked your whole world? I bet you have – no one is immune. Mine came this summer, and the aftershock hit me just the other day. We’ve been having a lot of health problems, and this last summer we found a holistic doctor who understands just what’s going on with us. (This is awesome – we’ve been looking for years with no luck.) As we’ve undergone treatment, he has discovered that my children’s ability to process information in their brains is diminished, due to a whole … Continue reading →

John Cena Talks Smack about Dwayne Johnson

Do you remember when Dwayne Johnson just went by the name The Rock and talked about the People’s Elbow? Yeah, neither do most of those at the Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards show he hosted last night. Wrestler turned actor John Cena appeared on the award show last night, but Cena doesn’t seem to completely agree with the path Johnson has taken. Johnson came from a family of wrestling legacy (both is father Rocky Johnson and maternal grandfather Peter Maivia were wrestlers), but he hasn’t wrestled in the WWE full time since 2003. After an attempt at the obvious action hero … Continue reading →

Alternatives to Smacking.

This is a sister article to: To Smack or Not to Smack? What is the Answer? Click here to read it. If smacking another adult is assault, it may be beneficial to train our children early not to smack people. Smacking is a behavior that belongs with the tactics of power and control associated with the Cycle of Violence. To break this cycle, we need to find alternatives to physical punishment when all we really want to do is lash out at our children. Children never deserve physical violence and learn nothing positive from such action. If we model alternatives … Continue reading →

To Smack or Not to Smack? What is the Answer?

I was recently asked to be a radio talk back guest on smacking children. The young female presenter gave the following scenario: A young mother, on her way home from work and after picking up here 3-year-old daughter from day care, stopped to choose a DVD. While cruising around the isles attempting to choose her only entertainment for the week, her young daughter starts pulling videos off shelves and throwing them at her mother. The mother smacked the child, one hard swift smack on the bottom, paid for the DVD in her hand and left. The young video store attendant … Continue reading →

Phone Manners Matter

One of my biggest pet peeves is watching a young child beg for his mom or dad’s attention when said parent is talking on a cellphone, and then getting swatted away as though he were a pesky mosquito. Granted, most of the time I view these incidents, my daughter and I are at a park, restaurant or other public place, and I don’t know who is on the other end of the phone call. However, I still don’t think it is appropriate for the parent to walk away from his or her child, as though they weren’t related, just so … Continue reading →

My Irrational Moment as a Parent

Ever have one of those irrational moments as a parent? The kind where you are so oblivious to how you are handling things that you are sure everyone else is crazy? Last week I had one of those. It was my son’s first official day of work. Up until then he had gone for either orientation or training but on his first official day he would be working a full five hours. He was supposed to text me when he got to work and text me when he was leaving. He was also supposed to come home and change before … Continue reading →

My homeschooled son is socially awkward

I will start by saying if you know me and my son personally, don’t let him know I wrote this. He has a killer evil eye. Anyway, I just finished reading a slew of comments on the blog of someone who was asking questions about homeschooling. Most of the comments said something to the effect of homeschoolers are socially awkward, blah, blah, blah. The truth is that many homeschoolers are socially awkward, including my son. Many homeschoolers are also not socially awkward. My son was born … different. He has always been a serious person, and while mischievous as a … Continue reading →

A School By Any Other Name

What’s a six letter word for the place your children go each day to learn important life lessons? It’s not a trick question. The answer is SCHOOL. Unless, of course, you live in the United Kingdom. Students attending Watercliffe Meadow Primary in Sheffield, UK no longer attend “school.” Rather, educational leaders there have decided to refer to their building as a “place of learning.” According to news reports, the head teacher of Watercliffe Meadow Primary recently confirmed that administrators dropped the word “school” from the place of learning’s name. Watercliffe Meadow leaders explained the decision this way: “We decided from … Continue reading →

Are You All Caught Up?

Is there really such a thing as being caught up in the scrapbooking world? Aren’t we always taking photographs, and aren’t we always feeling creative? I would think that this question would retire after awhile, but I actually hear it a lot. “Are you caught up?” Personally I think the question is king of subjective and is honestly different for any person who is scrapbooking. It sort of seems to depend on an individual scrapbookers goals and what they might hope to accomplish with their scrapbooking hobby. In that same aspect, one can also argue that if you are a … Continue reading →