Tag: Parenting

I sat in my car, fuming. I honked the horn. I yelled out the window, "If you don't get in the car straight away, I'm going without you!"

What should I do if I discover my child is a bully?

Fear of the dark is irrational and silly, but I have too many silly irrational fears of my own to go mocking anyone else's phobias.

I don't like Russian dolls. They are so full of themselves. (I'm tempted to get some Russian dolls and have them in my office just so I can use that joke whenever someone walks in).

This Sunday is Mother's Day. Yes, the commercial world has picked up what used to be Mothering Sunday and turned it in to a festival of consumerism,

People do discipline in very different ways, and you might think some people (even really nice people!) don't do it very well. What are you going to do if you do not think your partner is doing a very good job of handling the children?

Parenting is one of the most wonderful, confusing, frustrating and satisfying things you will ever undertake.

Plants hate me. They hiss at me as I walk past them… the ones that are still alive, anyway.

Actually, a wish list can be a very useful tool to help tune up kids expectations around Christmas.

When my parents died, my three brothers and my sister and I lost our main point of connection with each other. We spread out over the globe. Our life stories headed in different directions, and we lost contact.