I took my daughter to the pediatrician today. It was the first time I took her to a pediatrician as a single parent. I made all the arrangements a week ago and got her all “pumped up” for the visit. She was excited. This visit was for a school physical and to get her immunization [...]
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On today’s Life Tips post we go over the importance of keeping your child learning over the summer. Daily routines are important and what is on the agenda is just as critical as the routine itself. Go to
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Father’s Day is this weekend and my girls are beginning to grasps the concept – holiday’s equal gifts. They are just not a hundred percent on who receives the gifts. They are stuck on the whole Christmas exchanging gifts thing. They pretty much expect something in return when they give a gift. My family asked [...]
At home summer fun is a term single parents have a challenge fulfilling. It’s possible, but it takes a lot of planning. This is the first summer with my kids, completely on my own, and there have been some challenges the last month. During school the weekdays are my time to get things done – [...]
I am currently in New York networking and rubbing shoulders with some of the blogging world superstars during Internet Week – actually, I’m just in the same city. Anyway, I have been in seminars all day and done a little sightseeing (see picture of Washington Square Park) so please excuse the brevity of this post. [...]
Is it really this hard?
My girls are two years apart. My limited experience with age differential is as people get older the age gap becomes less significant. When my kids are in their 20’s their age will be less an obstacle then now and so on. Actually, my three year will enjoy teasing her older [...]
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A few months ago my girls were always telling me they were scared. At first, I thought it was my approach with them – was I being too overbearing and short tempered? After an entire weekend of being extremely gentle they continued to express themselves as being scared when I addressed bad behavior or put [...]
I never had a well cultivated relationship with my grandparents. They either lived far way or were not with us. As I got older, other things took precedence in my life over developing a relationship with them. I was indifferent to the importance of a grandparent/grandchild relationship when I became a parent. It took me [...]
I’m sure everyone has heard of that ridiculous horror film – Snakes on a Plane. It’s the movie Samuel L. Jackson amply wishes he never made, as he should. If the producers did their research they would have made “kids on a plane” instead and really scared us all. In my prior career, I was [...]
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