I'm sure that the new GUM Star Wars toothbrush - the one that lights up like a lightsaber and flashes for one minute - (the length of time you should brush upper teeth, with another minute for the lowers) was intended for little kids. But my nearly twelve year old son loves the thing. His father Continue Reading
My Kids are Learning Curse Words in School. From their Teachers.
My daughter came home from school the other day with a very important question: “Why would anyone call a vagina a p***y?” “Where did you hear that word?” I wanted to know. “Puberty Ed.” The fifth graders at my kids’ uber-expensive private school have started what used to be called Sex Ed, but is Continue Reading
Batman and the Owls of Ga’Hoole take on Kirby and Nancy Drew
Imagine if there was a battle between Batman, (the caped crusader) and Nancy Drew, (the girl detective) Who would win? Depends on what the fight was. If they were vying on a brawn-only basis, Batman. Brains? Nancy Drew. But if you asked my ten year old twins who would win - then you'd have a real Continue Reading
Is Decluttering the same as Saying Goodbye?
Not too long ago, I went on a cleaning binge. One of the things I threw out was a poster-sized blow up of a picture of me from my wedding. My husband had blown up pictures from several different stages of my life to decorate the room in which he threw me a surprise 40th birthday party. The Continue Reading
My Kids Aren’t Coming Home from Camp. Yet.
So sleepaway camp was supposed to be for four weeks. Four weeks of no tooth brushing, rare showering, mediocre (at best) food, and fun fun fun. For them. I'm talking about them. For me, those four weeks went almost exactly the way a friend of mine told me they would: week 1 - I was tearing up Continue Reading
It’s the Away Part of Sleepaway Camp that Gets to Me
In fourteen days, my kids will leave for sleepaway camp. You'd think I'd be excited. They are going to have this incredible experience, make lifelong friends, enjoy the mountains, and a lake, and the camaraderie that's practically exclusive to being at camp. You'd think I'd be looking forward to Continue Reading
When is Puberty Ed a bit to Ed-ucational?
My son patiently explained that when a baby was growing inside of it's mother, it got all of it's nourishment from the Polenta. Perhaps Puberty Education (the new p.c. way of saying sex education) isn't quite working out. For years, when my kids asked where babies came from, I told them the truth: Continue Reading
Believe in Sex Ed? Here’s your Chance to help save it
Last week I let my daughter watch the Lindsey Lohan movie Mean Girls. Yikes. First, my daughter asked why the girls looked in the mirror and said bad things about themselves. Then she asked what a "bee-yotch" was. Then she asked what a condom was. I told her. "It something men put on their Continue Reading
At Least my Dog Still Loves Me
The Kids vs. The Dog I remember the olden days when my children would cry and carry on when I left the house to go out. "Don't go Mommy! Don't go!" And when they would rejoice at my return, running to the door to smother me with kisses....even if I had only gone downstairs to get the mail. But Continue Reading
Walked In On…
So my daughter "walked in on us" the other day. Funny since (sorry hubby) it's not like statistically speaking, there are a whole lot of chances for that to happen. (so sue me. kids. work. blog. puppy. life. oh, and swine flu. my uber- excuse for everything. ) It happens to every parent, I'm sure. Continue Reading