When my son came into this world, I approached parenting the same way I approached every new endeavor.  I bought a book.  And then another.  I scoured the pages searching for approaches, techniques, answers, and solutions.  I knew that the little baby lying in the Moses basket next to my bed would one day hit [...]

I had a mommy breakthrough this evening and I just have to share it with all my mommy (and daddy!) friends. First-time parents, especially, take note. My son has always been horrible about taking medicine. During his “terrible two’s” i perfected a technique of holding him down and giving him medicine. It was absolutely no [...]

I am trying to get back into a regular routine with my blogs and so here I am with my first post in … well, a little while  When I haven’t blogged for awhile, I get intimidated thinking that my blog post needs to be a thousand words long and contain some important insight.  In [...]

Readers of this blog will know how apprehensive I have been about starting my son in school.  It turns out there’s somebody who has been even more apprehensive than me – his father! Our son is turning four and just started in a Montessori preschool.  In our one-on-one meeting with my son’s new teacher, she [...]