Great Game!
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Parenting on Nov 22nd, 2006 Discussion »
Do we keep our children from doing their best when we give them false praise and encouragement for half-hearted efforts?
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Making a Difference
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Service, Parenting on Sep 23rd, 2006 Discussion »
I have been struggling this month to figure out what to write about.
A Retrospective of Motherhood
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Parenting on Aug 6th, 2006 Discussion »
August 1981
I never should have looked around at the ladies in our child-birthing class and picked out the statistical three who looked to me like they would end up having their babies by C-Section.
Grief in Children
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Parenting on Jul 20th, 2006 Discussion »
Many years ago I lost a little niece to SIDS. I explained her death to my eight-year-old son as matter-of-factly as I could.
The “X” Factor
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Parenting on Jun 27th, 2006 Discussion »
Have you ever sat in a parenting class or lesson and felt like a complete failure? I have a friend who told me once, “If I had only had my oldest child, I would have thought I was the world’s best parent.
Post-Mother’s Day Letdown
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box on May 21st, 2006 Discussion »
My husband and I play Scrabble nearly every day, and he beats me an unfair proportion of the time, but on special days he always lets me win, by opening up triple-word-scores and not using them or trading in both blanks, anything to give me a much-needed advantage.
The Envelope, Please
Posted in Parenting Outside the Box, Parenting on May 14th, 2006 Discussion »
It was with fear and trepidation, along with joy and elation, that I married a widower with five children, aging from 15 to 24—four of them boys—in December of 2000.
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