Historical Archives
This is the last full week of school. Next week will probably be a complete wash with only a day and a half. I’m sure that time will be used for parties and cleaning out desks and lockers. For the first time since I’ve been a parent, I’m staring down a summer where both the…
Today is Geeky Boy’s birthday. He’s 14 and about to go into high school. He’s had a very up and down year and I think he’s looking forward to a new environment and new things. I’ve had a very up and down year as his parent. I feel certain at times that I’m just doing…
Laura at 11D writes about bad mothering. I read the Belkin post she refers to, where she suggests that we may be approaching a time of less overparenting. I also read what I think are the beginnings of a longer piece by her on this issue (it just didn’t seem finished to me). Yesterday, we…
Elizabeth Coffman writes this morning about the myth of the two-income family. She says: we need to have a broad, political discussion asserting that the two-income family is not working for many people. This economy, our government, and our own illusions have failed us. We used to have the “where are the women bloggers” conversation…
So, um, yeah, the rest of my week–mostly like Monday. There was the primary that I worked at all day on Tuesday. Track meet on Wednesday, Shakespeare Club on Thursday and lots of picking up the pieces in between. Yesterday, Lisa Belkin asked if sometimes the grass is greener on both sides of the single/partnered…
I had a fairly long philosophical post planned out, but find myself recovering from a migraine, plus having jaw pain (I’m in treatment, but have another month to go). So you get just the facts–and the panic. Over the weekend, not one, but two high school girls came calling at our house. My son, a…
Beth, at Silicon Valley Moms, has a great post up about some of the media coverage being given to Oprah’s joining Twitter. There are many assumptions in the media that moms just don’t know their way around the Internets. Um, Mommy Bloggers, anyone? Heck, back when I was first learning web design in the late…
For some people, parenting is always mostly enjoyable, but for quite a few, parenting can be drudgery more often than not. Or, at the very least, one can focus on the drudgery rather than enjoying the fun parts. I’ve been there. Gretchen Rubin at The Happiness Project offers some tips for finding the happiness in…
Experts are now recommending that teenagers be routinely tested for depression. I think this is an excellent idea. Those of you with teenagers might know why. When your kids become teens, they stop telling you everything. Even the good-natured, non-confrontational ones. So sometimes it’s hard to tell when something is really bothering them. They may…
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