Parenting, routines and family life told with realism and a bit of humor.
A kids' birthday party can run $50 or $500 depending on choices most parents don't realize they're making until the invoice arrives.
The first week of summer break is when it hits most families: school is out, the routine that quietly governed
My son spent most of August before second grade convinced that the new teacher would be mean, the work would
I've watched a lot of well-intentioned green habits die in my house. The compost bin that grew fruit
Every March I get the itch to throw open the windows and purge half the house, and every March my
Somewhere around second grade, the after-school worksheet stopped being a worksheet and started being a referendum on my parenting. My
We started allowance the year our oldest asked, in the checkout line at Target, why she couldn't just
I used to be the mom hissing "what do you say?" at my kid over a birthday gift
My son would choose a screen over a book every single time if I let the choice be that bare,
Every screen-time plan I made before my daughter actually hit seven was beautiful, principled, and completely useless. I had charts.
My two kids, six and four, can go from building a Magna-Tiles castle together to a full-volume screaming match over
My daughter used to walk in the door from second grade like a shaken soda can, and the lid came