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It’s All Bully Talk and No Action
The title sounds like something you would see on Pinterest — in “4 easy steps to beat bullies,” but it’s not. It’s not easy for our kids to combat bullying or even understand it. As a child of the...
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Top 12 Resolutions for 2015 – For People With No Willpower Whatsoever
I’m so tired of looking back at the resolutions of the past year and realizing they lasted no longer than a week, which is why this year, my resolutions for 2015 are way less ambitious. 1. Gain Weight...
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My Daughter’s New Year’s Resolutions – I’m So Proud
To ring in the New Year I asked my children what their New Years Resolutions would be and Ry’s was three things: 1. Get more of those comfy sweats made of that stuffed animal like material. 2. Play...
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Do I Win Neurotic Mom of the Year or Would This Make You Insane Too?
Yes, I have problems sitting on the “sick side” of the pediatrician’s office. Yes, I assume the person before me at every restaurant, arcade, amusement park, and grocery store shopping cart has picked...
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Kids with Attitudes are the So Fun: Random Conversations
Hairdresser having just cut and blown it out. It’s not bad, right? The other day I got a haircut. Ry (my 10yo daughter) got in the car and simply said, “hair cut.” In a robotic, I see you got one, so...
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30 Signs You Are NOT a Parent of a Young Child
After my “40 Signs You’re a Mom” list got such an incredible response, it dawned on me that those folks who have kids that are older, don’t have kids yet or don’t want them, have some pretty...
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Things Gen X ers Did Growing Up That Would Being Considered Insane Now
Growing up a Gen X ‘er, I can distinctly recall being allowed to do all kinds of things we would find crazy today. Like roaming the streets of our neighborhood for hours with no way of being...
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You Don’t Allow Your Daughter to Play With Barbie Dolls — Seriously?
The other day, my 10yo daughter, Ry asked me to convince her friend’s mom to let her have Barbie dolls. “I’m so lucky to have a mom like you that will play Barbies with me and doesn’t make me feel...
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What Those V-Day Candy Sweethearts Should REALLY Say – After Marriage Edition
I’ve had some awkward V-Day Moments, from my 5yo trying to soap opera kiss me to my hubby trying to stuff himself and champagne into an undersized NYC bathtub in our undersized NYC apartment to my...
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21 Things We Did as Kids in the 70s and 80s That Would Horrify Us Now
As a Gen Xer, I so enjoy reminiscing about the freedoms we had growing up in the 70s and 80s. Our parents take on safety and acceptable ways to spend one’s time was different from the get go. Starting...
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Awkward V-day Moments With The Kids
This is still one of my favorite V-Day moments (awkwardness, inappropriateness, and fear for my safety aside). On February 14th a few years back, Ry, my daughter, then 5 years old, trotted into my room...
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12 Rare Occurances I’d Like to Celebrate V-Day Style
My husband was offended by last week’s column on what those candy sweethearts should REALLY say. Well, maybe not so much “offended” as defeated. Since I was suggesting we replace “BE MINE?” with “R...
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The First Installment of – Things That Happen in the Middle of Nowhere with...
So, I left camp today to trek out into the Berkshires to pick up a prescription. The Berkshires are absolutely stunning, but everyone drives really slow. I mean slower than the speed limit, slow… like...
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5 Brilliant Ways to Treat the Why Me Epidemic
So, last night at a friend’s house, I watched her son opened an awesome Nerf bazooka gun that shoots like 600 bullets at the same time. He was having a tough day, he was exhausted and then the gun had...
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