Parenting

“How do you do it?” is the question I am asked all the time. I mean, all the time. How do I manage to do what I do, raise four kids, keep a clean house,…

Ahhh…sleep. It’s a glorious thing, yet many of us get nowhere near enough. WebMD provides a comprehensive list of how much sleep people need by age (I, personally, require 8 hours of sleep every night…

If there is one thing I will not tolerate from my children, it’s lying. The number one rule in our household is the truth is spoken at all times. Lying is unacceptable. I remember growing…

Middle school is the rule in our home. When you go to middle school, you can have a cell phone. Not a moment before, and we will have full and complete access to your phone…

It began when our oldest daughter was in third grade. She got into the car after school one day, and she immediately began crying. Before she said a word, I could already feel the anger…

There’s a saying that being a mother essentially means spending the rest of your life with your heart walking around outside of your chest while also really sucking sometimes. I don’t know where I heard…

Kids ruin everything. I say it (mostly jokingly) all the time. Kids are the light of our lives, yet they are also the darkness that descends upon a good time in a matter of seconds…

“I’m a cool mom, sweetheart,” may or may not be a repeat phrase in our household. Rest assured, however, that it always elicits a slightly raised eyebrow from our teenage daughter and a not-so-subtle side-eye…

Boarding school. Boot camp. Parents joke about sending their teens to one or the other – or both – when they’re acting up, and then we all laugh about it. My parents joked with me…