Yet another thing to talk to my kids about – vodka eyeballing. What will they come up with next? Seriously, pouring alcohol into your eyes. What are they thinking? Probably not thinking – as most teens don’t seem to do. Apparently teens don’t think they are getting drunk fast enough and pouring vodka into their [...]
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Can we not just be moms? Our own kind of mom? I am really getting sick of the labels. It is almost as if we have to be some type of mom. The overload of the Tiger thing has just gotten to me. That is all we are hearing lately. What kind of mom are [...]
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We all know the world is changing and big brother is watching. But when does it become too much? I am all for keeping my kids safe. Trust me, I would keep them in a bubble if I could – no lie. But as kids, we lived – and we learned. Are parents today relying [...]
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We hear all over about how we ‘Americans’ need to do something about our kids and how they are lacking behind the rest of the world – Asia in particular. We are told that Asians have all the smarts that we need to have – the stereotype. Each year when I attend the beginning of [...]
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It was a tragic story last month when just before Christmas a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by his 12-year-old friend. Just thinking about this gives me the chills. The boys found an unloaded gun in one of the boy’s father’s dresser drawer and loaded it with a clip found in another drawer. The [...]
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I recently wrote my thoughts on how I long for The Simple Life over on Smartly. Writing this made me think about the state of the world now, the bad economy, and how something good just may come out of the times we are in. We all tend to look on the bad side. And, [...]
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What kind of milk did you buy when you were in school? I was all about the chocolate. Heads up. Chocolate milk is next on the ban list in schools. Are restrictions becoming too much? No sweets for birthday celebrations and now no chocolate milk for lunch? We grew up with chocolate milk and we [...]
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Years ago when my first was one it was an option to get the chicken pox vaccine. It was a very new vaccine and there was lots of talk about whether or not it was the right thing to do. Just like with anything else there were all sides to the issue. Some thinking, “I [...]
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I left a large part of me in last fall worrying about H1N1. The uncertainty and the frustration took me over. It was about this time last year when it all started. The virus that could be the end of us, similar to what happened years back and killed so many people. The media managed [...]
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Imagine my kids yesterday when they heard the President talking about longer school years. Not happy campers. I understand where they are coming from (the officials). Extending our school year will keep us up with other countries whose children attend school all year and are “smarter”. I get it – keeping up with the world [...]
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