Ages + Stages

The summer before my daughter's freshman year of high school, at marching band camp, we got an early education we weren't expecting.  We learned that a combination of teens, cell phones and nude pics could result in pornography charges. ...

Day 865: The cunning toddler is a master manipulator. She refuses to interact with her mother, and instead only cooperates with her father. Perhaps because the father allows greater latitude with snacking before breakfast. Mother relieved to not spend the morning wrestling toddler.

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to say something, and to say it well. Some of us will always opt to say something, or to say everything. I usually err on the side of saying something, and I'm learning that there are many times when the very best thing I can do is to say nothing.

Snow days are fun and exciting. Until a few hours later, when you are running out of ideas to keep the kids entertained. Fear not, because there is plenty of fun to be had with a cheap ream of printer paper....

Middle school is rough, even when you’re 40. It might even be harder.  I recently had an experience that reminded me all over again of middle school, and how socially rough it can be to be a girl. I have been...

Recently, my husband and I both came down with a terrible stomach virus. You know the kind of illness that debilitates and leaves you lying on the bathroom floor. The kind of illness that brings you to thank God...

I was raised in Michigan, and have never spent a winter in anything but snow. So, while winter here is a little more mild, I am used to snow. But I remember being a student at the University of...

As a working mom, I often feel like I miss out on opportunities to be there for the little things my kids do at school and daycare (recitals, parties, picture day etc).  Last Friday, for example, though I had...

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post for PUPIL.  However, all opinions are 100% our own and we stand by PUPIL and all that we endorse. Moms, do you ever feel like you take care of everyone in your family except for...

Vacationing as a family isn’t always a vacation when you think about squeezing a whole family (in our case five) into a single hotel room where everyone has to go to bed at the same time and you have...