From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Mom is having a bad day and needs a break….grab the Benadryl. There has been a lot of talk lately about moms drugging kids.  Yup, drugging kids. The hype is all about those parents who give their kids medication (mostly sedatives) for a break.  I will say I have never given my kids medication for [...]

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I am one of the first to say YAY to medical advancement and new technology.  I really can’t imagine living back years ago when we didn’t have the treatments or testing capabilities that we do now.  I was one of those that HAD to find out what the sex of my baby was when I [...]

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Are parents too trusting these days?  Maybe just oblivious.  Or…maybe too busy?  What happened to ‘making sure the parents are home’? Now that we are past the ‘play date’ stage with my older two kids, things are getting a bit trickier. Bonfire parties, parties with both boys and girls, friends that I never met during [...]

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Do you remember jealousy as a teen?  Of course you do.  Now, you may not have been one of those super jealous people who just about flipped any time your boyfriend talked to another girl, but I think we all had some form of jealousy in us (some still do). I am starting to wonder [...]

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I finally did it.  I agreed to let my son have a Facebook Page.  Ugh, I know.  But let me just say I came to the conclusion I would rather he have a legitimate page, me be his friend, me have his password, me set his privacy settings, and me go over and over the [...]

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We all know our kids are growing up in a super digital world compared to that of what we did.  My ‘digital’ went as far as the Commodore-64 and Merlin (remember Merlin?).  In no way, shape, or form did our digital worlds mean connecting with people across the world or even next door for that [...]

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